Tuesday 19 September 2017

Horrid autumn- 19/9/17


Point: Chiffchaff 2, Teal 4 (don't knock it, that's good for the small tidal pond).

Vis mig (w): Brent Goose 12, Wigeon 68 (+120 north-west), Teal 35(southwest), Dunlin 76, Snipe 1, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank 4, Black-tailed Godwit 30 (north), Sandwich Tern 47 (and 11 offshore), Common Tern, Wheatear, Meadow Pipit 10.


Yesterday I mentioned disturbance to roosts. Thankfully birders do not flush the roosts every day. Nor do the dogwalkers. But add them all together.. Today? That seaplane. Motney then on to put up everything on Burntwick and Greenborough. Everything. Waders forced to cross the estuary, duck as well. Easy to make out some individual species than others; the Greenborough Curlew roost went up as one. The larger the wader, the easier they spook. Hopefully they won't be as easily put off as the summering flock this year, whose numbers were extremely low once they'd been put to flight, by flight.

The seaplane can land to play on the water where marked in red. It can bank and turn over the islands to do so. Today, most of the curlew and duck came up from the stretch marked in green. Go figure.




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