Friday 5 August 2011

Friday 5th August 2011 – Afternoon


14:00 > 15:00
Sunny, warm, broken cloud. 24c

Again fairly quiet but a Yellow Wagtail family, parents and four young, were relocated (or it’s a fifth brood) amongst the newly planted trees along the Ouse side banking.

Elsewhere nothing too much of note.  A few more Lapwing have returned as have a round dozen Common Tern and amongst the gulls a first Common Gull of the ‘winter’ put in an appearance. Three Little Egret flitted here and there.

Along Front Brook breeding pairs of Sedge and Reed Warbler still about as was a male Reed Bunting.

Highlight of the day though out in the scrub was a tussle between two Magpies and a Kestrel over lunch. Give the Kes its due, it may have been outnumbered but it stood its ground and won.

Not been a great summer for butterflies but an abundance of Gatekeeper today might be an upturn in fortunes, we hope…

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