Wheatear - Manor Farm - Spring 094:30 >5:15pm
Warm, sunny.
And here was me thinking that anything heading south that might stopover would only be attracted to the new 'magnetic' landscaped areas when lo and behold this evening a juvenile Wheatear turns up in an area where I have sighted a couple in the past way before the quarry workings took place. Follow the path behind the farms buildings along ridge as if heading for canal. On the fen posts by the area of rabbit workings. And oddly enough an area and a bird i'd discussed with someone from the Parks Trust just a few days back. Next week the lottery numbers.
Down on the working themselves, not a lot. No sign of any waders apart from the 40 or so Lapwing dotted about. Around 100 Gulls, with a hefty number of Lesser Black Backs included, 32 at least included in that number.
A couple of Common Terns still in the area was the only other real birds of note while the Kestrel still tries his best with the Goldfinch flocks.
** This morning on the canal bank just south of the site was a single Common Sandpiper.
On the butterfly front the sun brought out even larger numbers of Large Whites.
Wheatear - Birdguides
Wheatear - BTO
Wheatear - RSPB
Wheatear - Wiki
Large White - Butterfly Conservation
Large White - UK Butterflies
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