Citrine Wagtail - first year |
Yellow Wagtail |
Little Ringed Plover |
Little Stint |
Little Stint |
I then moved on across the scrubby desert area which has held very few birds over the summer to the percolation pond. The pond is just starting to attract birds again with a juvenile Little Bittern seen in flight, but all the herons of recent days appear to have moved on. Duck numbers are increasing with 25 Northern Shovellers and 13 Garganey present as well as a Great Crested Grebe. The only other bird of note was a Ruff flying around trying to find somewhere suitable to land. Finally a look around the spray fields for shrikes and Wheatears produced a Southern Grey Shrike in the bushes at the side of the pond details of which I will post later as well as a single Isabelline Wheatear.
Garganey |
Northern Shoveler |