0500 - 0820 clear, cool but warming, ENE f1
14 Nightingales
3 Willow Warbler
7 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Cettis Warbler
1 Garden Warbler
lots of Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs and Reed Warblers and Whitethroats.....
Tawny Owl was calling when I arrived on site....though this morning it was quite light already by 0500hrs....no cloud....clear skies....might have to set the alarm a bit earlier....
Plenty of Nightingale action to be had this morning.....14 total is very good, probably equalling the highest count over the years here.....will be interesting to see if they all remain as a new one appeared in an already crowded area....
The UK population of singing males, estimated in 2018, is somewhere between 5000 and 6000...ish...so as a percentage, using 5500 as a starting point, 14 would be around 0.25%.....when you look at it that way its not so impressive...doh!
Now 6 Lesser Whitethroats....two jostling for position just a few yards apart....I can say yards again now we are doing Brexit...arf! arf!....
Still just the one Garden Warbler....more to come I hope....
Over at West Pit I bumped in to SB who had walked out from Paddock Wood...we both watched a Lesser Whitethroat from different angles...stopped....had a chat....then socially distanced for a walk round the rest of the pits....
First up was a Green Sandpiper....excellent...a nice little run of waders....
We stopped and listened to Reed Warblers....one trying its best to be a Sedge...but turned out to be...a Reed....on....
Along by Island Pit we were treated to brief renditions by a Nightingale....then a Cuckoo did a fly past which gave good views.....and immediately SB spotted a lone Swallow....one Swallow doesn't make a Summer....but when its accompanied by a Cuckoo...it does...!!
3 Mandarin flew by....
Its building nicely to a good number of warblers....
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