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  1. Steve Newland

    Earlswood Lakes & Surrounding Area

    Nice haul. And I passed it by yesterday - chizz chizz chizz. It might be the bird's posture but the ear coverts look like LRP for your plover.
  2. Steve Newland

    Earlswood Lakes & Surrounding Area

    This time on the Windmill Pool (I know its name now) one adult LRP and at least three juveniles. Good news finally! The oycs didn't look at all successful but the crows did.
  3. Steve Newland

    Earlswood Lakes & Surrounding Area

    Both tanks filling up, maybe due to recent rain. As I passed the station, a red kite drifted over and then obliged again from the car park. Since the walk around the main lakes has been so curtailed, I checked out the third full-ish tank and hit paydirt. I could hear little ringed plovers and...
  4. Steve Newland

    Earlswood Lakes & Surrounding Area

    Not much water today and so not many birds, apart from one goosander clinging on. A pair of oycs may have been attracted by the acres of mud but were actually on the undrained tank. So I went searching for Blythe Valley Park. That seems to have been built over.
  5. Steve Newland

    Earlswood Lakes & Surrounding Area

    What looked like a juvenile Mandarin moulting into an adult male by dam at Windmill Pool this afternoon. One kingfisher sped across Terry's Pool. And a cloud of swallows and house martins held one sand martin over Engine Pool. The local thunder and hail must have brought the insects down.
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