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Camel Estuary, Cornwall (4 Viewers)
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Max Shearwater
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Salmon
There was a 2 foot long salmon seen splashing over the new spillway on the Amble stream at Walmsley on Wednesday. It must have managed to swim up through the tidal flap at the dam!
There was I questioning why they had to put a fish pass on the new water splash in the reserve.
Good to see though.
There was a 2 foot long salmon seen splashing over the new spillway on the Amble stream at Walmsley on Wednesday. It must have managed to swim up through the tidal flap at the dam!
There was I questioning why they had to put a fish pass on the new water splash in the reserve.
Good to see though.
Clapper Pools this afternoon; birds included 1 adult female Goldeneye (photo) 1 Tufted Duck, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper.
Dozmary Pool (Bodmin Moor) this morning 1 female Hawfinch in the top of Leylandii hedge leading to farm.
Colliford Dam, 2 adult Yellow-Legged Gulls with 130 Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
Dozmary Pool (Bodmin Moor) this morning 1 female Hawfinch in the top of Leylandii hedge leading to farm.
Colliford Dam, 2 adult Yellow-Legged Gulls with 130 Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
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Dinham Flats this morning before wildfowl shooters moved out onto the Flats; birds included 1 immature Goosander (photo) pair of Red-Breasted Merganser, 1 Black Swan, 12 Eurasian Wigeon, 8 Shelduck, 1 Spoonbill, 4 Grey Plover, 1400+ Golden Plover, 22 Ringed Plover, 180+ Dunlin, 40+ Common Redshank and 7 Cormorant (including adult sinensis)
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Too wet even for the tracked excavators to work at Amble Marshes this morning; birds included (long before high tide)168 Black-Tailed Godwit (including one colour ringed) 1 Spoonbill, 1 Goldeneye, 8 Tufted Duck, 41 Wigeon, 6 Northern Shoveler and 80+ Teal.
Male Black Redstart still around the crossroads at Glen Road Wadebridge.
Male Black Redstart still around the crossroads at Glen Road Wadebridge.
Camel trail from Guineaport this morning - common sandpiper, green sandpiper, little grebe, grey and pied wagtails, great spotted woodpecker, nuthatch, L.T.tit, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, goldcrests, 2 ravens, starlings, meadow pipits, lapwing, redshank, dipper, 11 moorhens, mallard, mute swan + ferral goose, 7 curlew,6 snipe, little egret, cormorant, bullfinch, c20 siskin,chaffinch, linnet, song thrush, blackbird, c20 redwing,dunnock, (surprisingly no teal).
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Max Shearwater
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No teal
Thats cos they were all in at Walmsley. I went in to close down the main sluice at about 16:00 and it was teeming with birds. Hundreds of teal took off along with wigeon, mallard, Tufties and other duck. Also many lapwings, dunlin, Bk.T.Godwit & curlew. Also 1 spoonbill and 3 Little Egret.
Water levels have risen such that there must be a lot of food coming to the surface in the newly flooded areas.
Thats cos they were all in at Walmsley. I went in to close down the main sluice at about 16:00 and it was teeming with birds. Hundreds of teal took off along with wigeon, mallard, Tufties and other duck. Also many lapwings, dunlin, Bk.T.Godwit & curlew. Also 1 spoonbill and 3 Little Egret.
Water levels have risen such that there must be a lot of food coming to the surface in the newly flooded areas.
Dinham Flats this afternoon; birds included 1500+ Golden Plover, with one possible but distant adult Pacific Golden Plover? (showing slightly smaller with longer legs, darker under-wing, some black on under tail coverts and toes projecting in flight) 2 Black Swan still, 220 Dunlin, 3 Grey Plover and 2 Mediterranean Gull.
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Odd Plover still this morning on Dinham Flats but briefly, with 1000+ Golden Plover. Other Birds included, Grey Plover, Dunlin, 12 Knot, 1 Spotted Redshank, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Spoonbill, 1 Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Goosander, 6 Mediterranean Gull, 100+ Wigeon and 3 Rock Pipits.
camelbirder
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Also noted this morning along the Camel Trail were 2 Firecrests, 1 near the toilet block at Wadebridge and the other between the first and second cuttings. A dark-bellied Brent Goose was also on the estuary early morning with the Wigeon. Other birds noted but not mentions by Colin include, 165 Common Snipe, 31 Teal, 26 Ringed Plover, 430 Lapwing, 8 Little Grebe and 2 Black Swan.
Whatever is reported from this site and used on other bird news sites is fine by me as long as I’m not misquoted. Even if I do happen to be wrong. If it’s to be the opinion of the editor, then let them put their name to the edit. So far at least I have never mentioned " American Golden Plover" in relation to the bird seen recently at Dinham Flats.
