Sunday 14 February 2016

Monthly guided walk

Nothing to exciting to report today, the Pochard were back on Sandford, as were a lot of wildfowl, 96 Pochard, 346 Gadwall, c60 Tufted Duck, 40+ Wigeon, with many more Wigeon on BSL.

LFGP offered Little Egret, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, Wigeon, Teal, but little else.

Changing subject, I've been doing some of my year list comparisons since 2012, which hasn't been straight forwards as I haven't kept 'in date order' lists, so had to do that part first and I'm not finished either.

What I can say so far is 2012 is the shining year, of all years, although if we just focused on January, 2016 isn't too bad at all.

31st January's;

2012 & 2016 - 83 species
2013 - 82 species
2015 - 78 species
2014 - 77 species

28th/29th February's;

2012 - 94 species
2013 - 88 species
2016 - 86 species so far
2015 - 82 species
2014 - 80 species

Not sure what it reveals without the species data itself, so I'll try to set that out soon and try and delve back into earlier years too.

For now the species seen by 29th February in 2012 that stick out are;

Yellow-legged Gull
Ruff
Merlin
Dunlin
Curlew
Redshank
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Jack Snipe

All indications seem to suggest, if you can reach 100 by, or before 29th March, you are on fire!

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