{"id":691,"date":"2010-07-01T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:31:51","slug":"jun-2010-bird-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/jun-2010-bird-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jun 2010 Bird Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">JUNE 2010 BIRD NOTES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0June Highlights:\u00a0Hobby, Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank and Pied Flycatcher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Little Grebe young yet, but 5 broods of Great Crested Grebe by the end of the month is an improvement on the past few years. Mute Swans had broods of 5 and 4 by 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.\u00a0 Barnacle Geese have failed on Horseshoe and Sailing Club Island and the birds have left site. Mallard broods totalled 9 by 30<sup>th<\/sup> compared with 13 and15 in the past two years and no broods of Tufted Duck yet, always a late breeder on this site. Moorhen showed 3 broods by 23<sup>rd<\/sup> and Coot 6 broods by 24<sup>th<\/sup>, which compares reasonably with the past few years\u2019 performance. The WeBS count on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> included 27 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Heron, 504 Canada Geese, 1 Teal, 87 Mallard, 177 Tufted and 195 Coot. Other wildfowl sightings were a Pink-footed Goose with Canadas on 17<sup>th<\/sup> and a Shelduck on 14<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>A Hobby was noted over StonesIslandon 17<sup>th<\/sup> and Fishtail Creek on 27<sup>th<\/sup>. There were probably 8 pairs of Oystercatchers present, based on Big Island, Flat Is\/Sheepwash Spit, Shiningford Is, Horseshoe Is, Watersports Is, Sailing Club Is, Fishtail Creek and Millfields Is and 4 pairs successfully reached young stage. Other waders recorded include a Dunlin on Flat Island on 9<sup>th<\/sup>, a surprisingly early Snipe flushed by a balloon on 30<sup>th<\/sup>, a Black-tailed Godwit at the Wildlife Centre on 26<sup>th<\/sup> and a Spotted Redshank on 22<sup>nd<\/sup>. This Spotted Redshank was seen at Millfields during the WeBS count at 0600hrs and then flew west. It is 5 years since the last record and several others were reported in theMidlands and North on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>11 young Black-headed Gulls could be seen from the Wildlife Centre on 6<sup>th<\/sup>. On 8<sup>th<\/sup>, there were 5 nests with young, 3 others probably on eggs and the only nest on Horseshoe Island had failed. The pair on the raft by Paul Stanley Hide had 3 young and another 2 or 3 pairs had nests on Flat Island, also on 8<sup>th<\/sup>. By 26<sup>th<\/sup> there were 4 big young\/juveniles on Flat Island, at least 1 of which was well flighted. During thunderstorms on 6<sup>th<\/sup> there were a further 14 Common Terns on site, obviously taking refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Two Little Owls were seen in fields near Fishtail on 25<sup>th<\/sup> and 2 separate groups of young Tawny Owls were noted on 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 25<sup>th<\/sup>. Great Spotted Woodpeckers were feeding at least 3 young in a hole in a tree in Middle Wood on 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 2 family parties were seen on 18<sup>th<\/sup>. A Swallow pair was feeding young in the Stone Barn on 4<sup>th<\/sup>, another pair was around the draw-off tower and House Martins have at least 24 active nests around the Visitor Centre. Juvenile Pied Wagtails were on Stones Island and Flat Island on 9<sup>th<\/sup>, a Sedge Warbler was singing at the ponds in Tail Bay on 15<sup>th<\/sup> and a Reed Warbler singing at Hopton Pond on 9<sup>th<\/sup> and Hopton Arm Reedbed on 22<sup>nd<\/sup>. A Spotted Flycatcher was in the woodland strip north of Hall Wood on 9<sup>th<\/sup> and 2 in Tail Bay on 15<sup>th<\/sup>. The lonely Pied Flycatcher was again singing in Warrington Knob on 4<sup>th<\/sup> but no sign later in the month. A pair of Great Tit was feeding young in the unmarked bird box among the display of bird boxes by the Wildlife Centre on 4<sup>th<\/sup> and many other dates. They obviously failed to notice the box marked Great Tit. Two family parties of Nuthatch were noted on 28<sup>th<\/sup>, a family party of Willow Tit on 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 25 House Sparrows, including this year\u2019s young, were around the Visitor Centre on 28<sup>th<\/sup> and 12 Tree Sparrows including young, were on the Wildlife Centre feeders on 18<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>87 Species this month compared with 93 in June 2009, 91 in 2008, 93 in 2007, 89 in 2006 and 84 in 2003. The low number is mainly due to few passage species calling in during a calm hot month.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 2010 BIRD NOTES \u00a0June Highlights:\u00a0Hobby, Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank and Pied Flycatcher. No Little Grebe young yet, but 5 broods of Great Crested Grebe by the end of the month is an improvement on the past few years. Mute Swans had broods of 5 and 4 by 22nd.\u00a0 Barnacle Geese have failed on Horseshoe [&hellip;]<\/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":[138,66,23,93],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carsington-bird-club","tag-godwit","tag-hobby","tag-pied-flycatcher","tag-spotted-redshank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}