{"id":693,"date":"2010-06-01T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T07:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:33:36","slug":"may-2010-bird-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/may-2010-bird-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2010 Bird Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MAY 2010 BIRD NOTES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<strong>May Highlights: Great Northern Diver, Red Kite, Osprey, Hobby, Sanderling, Turnstone, Mediterranean Gull, Black Tern, Cuckoo and Pied Flycatcher.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The long staying adult Great Northern Diver was last seen flying around in full summer plumage on 8<sup>th<\/sup>. There are no broods of Grebe, Swan, Barnacle Geese, Moorhen or Coot yet but, hopefully, this is only due to the late Spring, and June will be catch-up time. There was only 1 further brood of Mallard to add to last month\u2019s total of 4 broods, probably another indicator of delayed breeding for these water birds. Significant wildfowl counts were all from the WeBS survey on 16<sup>th<\/sup> and included 16 Little Grebe, 40 Great Crested Grebe, 40 Mallard, 147 Tufted Duck and 57 Coot. Additionally, there was a Shelduck on 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 10<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> and a female Scaup, present from April, was last seen on 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>A Red Kite drifted over Sheepwash on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and an Osprey perched on a buoy for an hour consuming a fish before flying up Fishtail Creek on 26<sup>th<\/sup>. The first Hobby was noted on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and a Peregrine flew over on 1<sup>st<\/sup>. There has been little Buzzard activity recorded and there are no signs of breeding, which is not surprising following the well publicised local find of 6 dead buzzards, suspected of being poisoned.<\/p>\n<p>At least 6 pairs of Oystercatchers have so far only produced 1 brood of 3, first noted on 5<sup>th<\/sup> on Millfields Island. Last month\u2019s Lapwing brood on Big Island showed 2 well grown young on 17<sup>th<\/sup> and there were further broods of 4 on 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 3 on 26<sup>th<\/sup>, both on Horseshoe Island. A pair of Redshank with 2 young were on Big Island on 12<sup>th<\/sup>. Passage waders included a Ringed Plover on 12<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2 Sanderling on 12<sup>th<\/sup>, a Dunlin on 1<sup>st<\/sup> and following days, 3 Black-tailed Godwit on 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit on 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 15 Whimbrel on 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 2 Curlew on 10<sup>th<\/sup>, a Greenshank flying through on 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 3 Common Sandpiper on 7<sup>th<\/sup> and a Turnstone from 7<sup>th<\/sup> to 11<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>A first summer Mediterranean Gull on HorseshoeIslandon 1<sup>st<\/sup> obviously stayed over from 30<sup>th<\/sup> May and an adult Little Gull was also on the island on 22<sup>nd<\/sup>. The Black-headed Gull colony at the Wildlife Centre took over the tern raft again, forcing off a nesting Moorhen. These gulls seem to have squeezed what looks like 8 nests onto the raft and 2 young were noted on 29<sup>th<\/sup>. A pair also have a nest on Horseshoe Island and another pair have bred on the raft at Paul Stanley Hide, showing 3 young on 31<sup>st<\/sup>. Three Common Terns were noted from 1<sup>st<\/sup> and a pair have settled on Flat Island again this year. The maximum number of Arctic Terns was 6 feeding off Stones Island on 7<sup>th<\/sup> and a Black Tern was present on 27-28<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Three Stock Doves were feeding on spilled seed in Sheepwash car park on 13<sup>th<\/sup>, a Cuckoo was noted near Middle Wood on 19<sup>th<\/sup>, and a Barn Owl on 15<sup>th<\/sup> and a Tawny Owl on 16<sup>th<\/sup> were both around Sheepwash. The first Grey Wagtail since early January was recorded on 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. A Redstart was singing near the Wildlife Centre on 1<sup>st<\/sup> and there was a male Whinchat on the dam wall on 5<sup>th<\/sup>. A Greenland race female Wheatear, a Sedge and a Reed Warbler were all seen on 1<sup>st<\/sup>and 13 Garden Warblers plus 42 Blackcaps plus 29 Willow Warblers were counted on a circular walk on 17<sup>th<\/sup>. A Spotted Flycatcher was noted from 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2 singing Pied Flycatchers on 13<sup>th<\/sup>, a pair of Raven with 3 young on 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 4 Linnet on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and a Bullfinch was heard singing on the Club Dawn Chorus Walk on 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>106 Species recorded compared with 108 in May 2009, 112 in 2008, 103 in 2007, 107 in 2006, 107 in 2005, 114 in 2004 and 110 in 2003.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MAY 2010 BIRD NOTES \u00a0May Highlights: Great Northern Diver, Red Kite, Osprey, Hobby, Sanderling, Turnstone, Mediterranean Gull, Black Tern, Cuckoo and Pied Flycatcher.\u00a0 The long staying adult Great Northern Diver was last seen flying around in full summer plumage on 8th. There are no broods of Grebe, Swan, Barnacle Geese, Moorhen or Coot yet but, [&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":[158,162,120,149,66,161,18,23,29,102],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carsington-bird-club","tag-black-tern","tag-cuckoo","tag-diver","tag-gnd","tag-hobby","tag-mediterranean-gull","tag-osprey","tag-pied-flycatcher","tag-red-kite","tag-sanderling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carsingtonbirdclub.co.uk\/cbc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}