{"id":688,"date":"2010-08-01T08:26:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T07:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:28:30","slug":"jul-2010-bird-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/jul-2010-bird-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jul 2010 Bird Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

JULY 2010 BIRD NOTES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Highlights: Wildfowl Broods and a Sanderling<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By the end of July, numbers of broods totalled: Little Grebe 1 (2 last year), Great Crested Grebe 8 (0), Mallard 20 (20), Tufted Duck 26 (20), Moorhen 7 (12) and Coot 12 (7). Maximum counts, excluding young, were 18 Little Grebe on the official WeBS count carried out on 25th<\/sup>, 36 Great Crested Grebe on 28th<\/sup>, 4 Heron on 23rd<\/sup> and 26th<\/sup>, 25 Mute Swan on 13th<\/sup> plus 4+5+3 cygnets, 273 Canada Geese on 13th<\/sup>, no Barnacle Geese this month, 2 Shelduck on 20th<\/sup>, 3 Gadwall on 6th<\/sup>, 2 Teal on 6th<\/sup>, 158 Mallard on 25th<\/sup>, 1 female Red-crested Pochard 19th<\/sup>-27th<\/sup>, 4 Pochard on 30th<\/sup>, 155 Tufted Duck on 25th<\/sup> and 422 Coot on 25th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Raptors included 2 Buzzards on 14th<\/sup>, a Hobby chasing hirundines over east bank on 20th<\/sup> and 2 Peregrines on 20th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Wader numbers were 4 Oystercatchers on 6th<\/sup>, 67 Lapwing on 28th<\/sup>, a Sanderling at the Wildlife Centre in the evening of 26th<\/sup>, 2 Dunlin on 22nd<\/sup> and 30th<\/sup> and singles most days from 12th<\/sup>. Black-tailed Godwit were on passage with 5 on Stones Island on 5th<\/sup>, 6 flew through early on 12th<\/sup>, 1 was on Stones Island on 27th<\/sup> and 3 flew through southwards on 28th<\/sup>. A late Redshank chick showed on Flat Island with 1 adult on 13th<\/sup> and was last recorded on Sheepwash Spit on 24th<\/sup>. Common Sandpipers were also passing through with 2 on 4th<\/sup> and at least 6 on 14th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Black-headed Gull young were well in evidence with flighted young seen on many shorelines, but surprise was in order when an adult pair marched 3 downy chicks from FlatIsland, along the front of Sheepwash and were on HorseshoeIslandless than 2 hours later. A pair on the raft by Paul Stanley Hide showed their second brood of at least 1 chick on 26th<\/sup>. Some Lesser Black-backed Gulls were visiting site, with 12 on 27th<\/sup>, but there is no noticeable gull roost yet. An adult Yellow-legged Gull was on site from 12th<\/sup> and 2 from 21st<\/sup>. One of the Yellow-legged Gulls was seen swallowing a Tufted Duck chick whole on 23rd<\/sup>. The pair of Common Terns breeding on Flat Island moved their 2 flighted young onto Watersports pontoon on 7th<\/sup> and they were last seen on 23rd<\/sup>. Three Arctic Terns flew through southeast on 19th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Three Stock Doves were high over the water on 28th<\/sup> and a Kingfisher returned from 25th<\/sup>, hopefully after successfully breeding elsewhere. Corvids were showing well on 27th<\/sup> with 18 Magpie, 150 Jackdaw, 9 Rook and 4 Raven, all noted during the day. The Wildlife feeder table held 19 Tree Sparrows on 26th<\/sup> and 7 Linnet were on Stones Island on 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

\u00a091 Species were recorded this month compared with 95 in July 2009, 97 in 2008, 94 in 2007, 94 in 2006, 97 in 2005 and 102 in 2004.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JULY 2010 BIRD NOTES \u00a0Highlights: Wildfowl Broods and a Sanderling By the end of July, numbers of broods totalled: Little Grebe 1 (2 last year), Great Crested Grebe 8 (0), Mallard 20 (20), Tufted Duck 26 (20), Moorhen 7 (12) and Coot 12 (7). Maximum counts, excluding young, were 18 Little Grebe on the official […]<\/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":[102],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carsington-bird-club","tag-sanderling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}