17:45 > 18:15
22c broken cloud then sun, westerly breeze.
Alas the wader pool is no more! The landscaping has gone on apace the last couple of days and the area that drew in the likes of Greenshank, Sanderling, Black Tailed Godwit and Dunlin, not to mention all the 'regular' waders has now been consigned to history under six foor of soil.
Also gone are the new developing pools on the northside, favoured by the Common and Green Sanpipers of late. All we have now is a couple of acres of undulating manicured mud. Eggs and omelettes though, its not as if all this is going to be buried under concrete. I expect now its a matter of waiting for this new layout to be flooded, as and when who knows?
As for the birds well a single Green Sandpiper circled a couple of times as if to say well it was here yesterday and that was about it apart from a few hundred Jackdaw, Crow and Woodpigeon on the freshly turned earth.
The inlet, where around 30 Black Headed Gulls were congregated, now remains the only bit of standing water at this end of the site (there are still the silt beds far to the east) but the inlet itself looks as though the level has been raised, a sign of things to come, we'll see.
Links:
This Time Last Year - Butterflies
Black Headed Gull - Birdguides
Black Headed Gull - BTO
Black Headed Gull - RSPB
Black Headed Gull - Wiki
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