Juvenile Dunlin - Manor Farm - Aug 16th 096:00 > 10:30am
Warm calm first thing then broken cloud with a SW brisk breeze at times before the sun won the day.
A beautiful summer morning, (remember them?) on arrival not only a multitude of gulls, virtually all Black Headed, out on the mud dozing but in the distance ballons taking off at the Northampton festival the flames added to the occaison.
The Greenshank and juvenile Dunlin remain on site for the third day, also an inlux of Common Sandpipers with three, possibly four now on site. Three Green Sandpipers were also present.
Four Little Egret's, a record for me at MF, were favoring a single pool while the Common Tern trio still flitted about.
The Kestrel still did his best to catch a Goldfinch, unsuccessfully, while the Bert and Ernie of the bird world, the two male Pheasants, forever with each other, of different races Bert (torquatus) and Ernie (colchicus) wandered aimlessly round the mud and even visited the wader pool for a while.
And todays 'new' butterfly was a Speckled Wood
Pheasant - Birdguides
Pheasant - BTO
Pheasant - Avibirds
Pheasant - RSPB
Pheasant - Wiki
Speckled Wood - Butterfly Conservation
Speckled Wood - UK Butterflies
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