Wednesday 18 March 2015

March chat

Richard and Geoff let me know a Stonechat was on the Phragmites ditch on the landfill late morning, but with my car in for repairs I couldn't get there....it wasn't seen later.

This is the first Stonechat in March since 15th 2005, with one also seen 26th 2004. Before that we have to go back all the way to 10th 1996, then a 3 dayer 24th to 27th 1988, then 1 1st, 22nd & 24th 1984 and finally 15th 1981. So you could say 'never common'.

Richard and Geoff also had the first Sand Martin thru, so it is starting to happen. I hope to be out tomorrow morning.

The year list and month list are lagging though, 6 more required for the year list to get into parity with 2004 and 2010, we expect the year to be on about 100, or more by end of the month. It will take 7 more for the March species total to get onto par with 2005, on average we expect to hit 91/92 in March these days. 2014 was quite low with 91 species for the month and 96 for the year by 31st.

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