Whetsted GP 0530 - 0900 cool, overcast, warming, little to no wind
Everybody records Nightingale...so.....heres a Garden Warbler......
A massive day at the gravel pits.....that time of year when everything is going to be as good as it gets for spring/summer birds.....loads of song everywhere and some nice surprises too....
The return of Turtle Doves.....over the past few years they seem to have declined from three pairs on site to one pair last year.....seemed the inevitable blank was coming.....so it was a great morning to find at least 3 purring away on the eastern half of the site.
The major reason for going was to try to finalise the number of Nightingales on site.....last count out was 15 though there had been 17 previous to that. Today I counted at least 18 on site, there may be another one or two but they are in difficult to get to areas so I will try to work on this over the next two weeks. There was another south of the pits, across south field and one over by East Lock on the Medway. And yet one more further along the Medway, east, somewhere off the eastern footpath.
7 Garden Warbler
8 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Cuckoos plus several females
2 Willow Warbler
3 Cetti Warbler
2 Shoveler....bit of an oddity for Whetsted as they all usually leave after spending the winter....there havent been any on site for a few weeks so...this return....seems odd.....the male was displaying to the female though.
3 Pochard
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull
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