Mixed weather conditions with a period of high pressure before cloud, rain and southwesterlies set in this weekend. Migration happenings are still fairly uneventful - the lingering county Osprey was a nice record, as were a large flock of Black-tailed Godwits. The first Cuckoo of the year was a bizarre vismig record - a hepatic female flying high west over Burgess Field and circling with a Kestrel, which took us a good 30 seconds to work out its identity!
Other than that the first Whitethroats are in on Burgess, a few Willow Warblers are trickling through and House Martins are back attending the colony on Aristotle Lane.
Hopefully the floodwaters last until the end of the month! Not sure they will at this rate.
01/04/2026
Male Osprey over north (year tick), House Martin (year tick), 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Oystercatcher, 4 Shelduck
02/04/2026
Little Ringed Plover, 4 Oystercatcher, 2 Snipe, 6 Shelduck, Great White Egret
03/04/2026
Redshank, 6 Oystercatcher, 6 Shelduck
05/04/2026
29 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Oystercatcher, 6 Shelduck
06/04/2026
Yellow Wagtail (year tick), 10 Black-tailed Godwit, Little Ringed Plover, 4 Oystercatcher, 6 Shelduck, Great White Egret
07/04/2026
Little Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher, Swallow, House Martin, 2 Shelduck, Great White Egret
08/04/2026
Little Ringed Plover, 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Swallow, 4 Shelduck, Great White Egret
09/04/2026
Whitethroat (year tick), Willow Warbler, 3 Oystercatcher, 10 Swallow, 6 Shelduck, Great White Egret
10/04/2026
Cuckoo over west (year tick), 6 Whitethroat (now properly in), 4 Willow Warbler, 4 Oystercatcher, 10 House Martin, 30 Swallow, 2 Shelduck, 2 Tufted Duck, Great White Egret
11/04/2026
4 Oystercatcher, 1 Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 10 Swallow, 8 House Martin, 5 Shelduck
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