Wednesday 15 July 2015

July Black-tailed Godwit

After getting Geoff's yesterday call about 2 Black-tailed Godwit flying over LFGP yesterday, I looked at recent records and feel the following is of interest.

There are now 3 July 14th Black-tailed Godwit records;

1/2006 on Sandford
1/2013 on LFGP
2/2015 over LFGP

If you then show the other July records;

1/7th & 8th 2008 - Tern scrape
2/17th 2010 - LFGP
1/13th & 1/15th 2011 - Sandford & LFGP respectively
7/1st & 3/25th 2013 - LFGP
1/2nd & 1/23rd 2014 - Tern scrape & LFGP respectively

As there are no July records prior to 2006, it appears highly likely that LFGP attracts them in, but I would also suggest there are waves/date windows they are occurring around, with not a great deal of date ranges between.

1st wave around the 1st/2nd July (+ 1/28th June 2011 & 2008 records)
2nd wave around 13th to 17th (+ up to a week later, perhaps constituting a 3rd wave around 23rd to 25th?)

August brings further waves 10th to 14th, then 23rd onward into September.

Now for us who do the odd early morning, it is fair to say that does not guarantee you will see, them as a several records are mid afternoon, or early evening.

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