Saturday 29th August 2015
The Farm is a tough place to have as your patch. The website
looks impressive with its list of sightings but considerable time and effort
has to be invested to achieve a high percentage of the rarer sightings.
The last week has seen signs of the Farm of old with a
steady flow of good migrants. The lagoons look particularly good for waders and
this area is holding the birds, which is another positive sign.
The news of a Pectoral Sandpiper had me spending some pre-football
time staked out at the lagoons. The Wood Sandpiper, Ruff, Greenshank 3 and the
regular Green and Common Sandpipers were also present.
Elsewhere on the Farm sightings were rolling in Spotted
Flycatcher, Redstart, Red Kites and Buzzards galore. A surprise entry over the
SE corner was a flying Fortress “SallyB” which did not have feathers but flew
all the same!
Sunday 30th August 2015
The ringers Mike and Frank were first on site this morning and had had a few Sedge Warbler in the nets early on. The first port of call for me was the lagoons with
Pinpoint and Nick. Yellow Wags were noted flying South as we made our way across Mount Beddington. There were a couple of new additions to the lagoons a Dunlin and a Black tailed
Godwit.
As we were marvelling at the lagoons and the visiting contents Pete spied
a marsh tern wheeling high. A bird I could not lock onto. That is why he is
called Pinpoint! The identity of this bird was not nailed as the bird disappeared
back into the clouds having also been picked up by Tank lakeside. Was this
another Farm tick that had completely slipped the net?!
Our vigil was re-located to “Kojak’s corner”. The
Black-tailed Godwit paid a short visit to the lake as well as a Whinchat which was very confiding. Curlewman was among a good spread of birders to frequent the corner.
Common Sandpipers
and Snipe. That was to be the last action of the day as I turned the lights out
as I left mid afternoon.
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