Not too much going on lately but still some odds and ends to keep the interest up. Yesterday I found a
Great White Egret at a private site in Essex and also kicked up a
Redwing there, my first of the autumn. On the patch today I picked up three extremely high
Common Snipes as they flew north, but only because I was watching two Hobbies in the scope at the time; they were so high that they were only just identifiable at 60x... it just goes to show what must go missing. There was also a
Stonechat at the farm today, a
Canada Goose flew over and there were singles of
Blackcap and
Common Whitethroat still on site. On Tuesday I found a (or the?)
Grasshopper Warbler in the favourite place for scarce patch warblers, the scrappy area in Canons Farmyard. Monday was impressive for hirundine passage with 700+
House Martins and c135
Swallows.
Rooks are starting to appear more now... I had a late Chalkhill Blue at Banstead Woods on Friday.
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| Great White Egret in Essex yesterday |
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| Stonechat at the farm today |
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| Grasshopper Warbler in the farmyard on Tuesday. Can you see it? |
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| Chalkhill Blue at Banstead Woods last Friday. Pretty late... |
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| Kestrel at the farm on Monday |
