{"id":4534,"date":"2022-08-04T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:56:42","slug":"july-2022-bird-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/july-2022-bird-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2022 Bird Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 2022 BIRD NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n

HIGHLIGHTS: Purple Heron, Marsh Tit, Arctic and Black Tern, Green Sandpiper, Garganey, Ruddy Shelduck.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Juvenile Purple Heron was seen over Stones for around 4 minutes before flying away. This is a first for Carsington Water.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Water bird maxima were from the WeBS count on 23rd<\/sup>, unless dated otherwise. 31 Mute Swan 31st<\/sup>, 300 Greylag Goose 5th<\/sup>, 846 Canada Goose 6th<\/sup>, 2 Barnacle Goose reported most dates within the month, 1 Ruddy Shelduck reported on 13 occasions, 7 Shelduck 10th<\/sup>, 34 Gadwall 30th<\/sup>, 20 Teal 24th<\/sup>, 343 Mallard, 3 Garganey 31st<\/sup>, 1 Shoveler on 7 dates, 12 Pochard 21st<\/sup>, 346 Tufted Duck, 28 Common Scoter 31st<\/sup>, 15 Little Grebe, 81 Great Crested Grebe 30th<\/sup>, 36 Cormorant 28th<\/sup>, 9 Little Egret 30th<\/sup>, 2 Great White Egret 29th<\/sup>, 14 Grey Heron, 1 Purple Heron 28th<\/sup>, 26 Moorhen 30th<\/sup>, 665 Coot, 1 Kingfisher 7th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Raptor sightings included 5 Red Kite 24th<\/sup>, 1 Sparrowhawk on 8 different dates this month, 6 Buzzards 20th<\/sup> and at least one individual seen most dates, 1 Osprey reported on 27th<\/sup>, 5 Kestrel 28th<\/sup> but with 2 and 3 birds seen for most of the month, 2 Peregrine 13th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Fifteen species of waders through this month with 12 Oystercatcher 6th<\/sup>, 7 Little Ringed Plover 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup>, 1 Ringed Plover 9th<\/sup>, 28th<\/sup>, 29th<\/sup> and 31st<\/sup>, 100 Lapwing 3rd<\/sup>, 3 Knot 21st<\/sup>, 4 Dunlin 25th<\/sup>, 1 Ruff 9th<\/sup>, 7 Snipe 31st<\/sup>, 8 Black-tailed Godwit 14th<\/sup>, 2 Whimbrel 21st<\/sup>, 3 Curlew 21st<\/sup> and 29th<\/sup>, 13 Redshank 21st<\/sup>, 1 Green Sandpiper 13th<\/sup>, 14 Common Sandpiper 5th<\/sup>, 2 Turnstone 22nd<\/sup>, 23rd<\/sup> and 29th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Maximum Gull numbers were 250 Black-headed Gull 6th<\/sup>, 4 Common Gull 29th<\/sup> and 30th<\/sup>, 115 Lesser Black-backed Gulls 12th<\/sup> with 92 reported on 28th<\/sup>, 1 Herring Gulls 17th<\/sup> and 25th<\/sup>, 3 Yellow-legged Gull 12th<\/sup>, 22nd<\/sup> and 29th<\/sup>, 2 Great black-backed Gulls 10th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

30 Common Tern 22nd<\/sup>, 6 Arctic Tern 21st<\/sup>, 6 Black Tern 22nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Among other species were 25 Swift 14th<\/sup>, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 5th<\/sup> and 27th<\/sup>, 3 Skylark 30th<\/sup>, 20 Sand Martin 24th<\/sup>, 100 Swallow 30th<\/sup>, 30 House Martins 30th<\/sup>, 2 Yellow Wagtail 20th<\/sup>, 9 Grey Wagtails 13th<\/sup>, 150 Pied Wagtail 28th<\/sup>, 4 Redstart 9th<\/sup> and 31st<\/sup>, 1 Wheatear 30th<\/sup>, 8 Sedge Warbler 30th<\/sup>, 5 Reed Warbler 27th<\/sup>, 1 Lesser Whitethroat 8th<\/sup>, 10th<\/sup>, 25th<\/sup> and 30th<\/sup>, 1 Whitethroat 10th<\/sup>, 4 Garden Warbler 10th<\/sup>, 10 Blackcap 5th<\/sup> and 14th<\/sup>, 13 Chiffchaff 5th<\/sup>, 4 Willow Warbler 27th<\/sup>, 1 Spotted Flycatcher 9th<\/sup>, 11th<\/sup>, 23rd<\/sup>, 25th<\/sup> and 31st<\/sup>, 2 Marsh Tit 5th<\/sup> (first since 2013), 7 Willow Tit 8th<\/sup>, 7 Tree Sparrow 25th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

A total 110 species for this month compared to 95 in 2021, 108 in 2020, 104 in 2019, 107 in 2018, 105 in 2017.<\/p>\n

This is the highest total for July since the records started back in 1993<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 2022 BIRD NOTES HIGHLIGHTS: Purple Heron, Marsh Tit, Arctic and Black Tern, Green Sandpiper, Garganey, Ruddy Shelduck. The Juvenile Purple Heron was seen over Stones for around 4 minutes before flying away. This is a first for Carsington Water. Water bird maxima were from the WeBS count on 23rd, unless dated otherwise. 31 Mute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carsington-bird-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}