At LFGP yesterday mid morning, a family of 4 Little-ringed Plover were on the NE corner, the 2 juveniles were fully grown, so not from here unless they were somewhere around Lodge Wood Lake all this time?
A Common Sandpiper on the North spit and in the distance the first Teal of the autumn/summer.
The Tern chicks are quite big and will be ringed on Saturday morning, along with any catchable Black-headed gull chicks.
On Sandford one Oystercatcher chick remains and the mystery of how they moved island and why? The why might be a Mink, or some other danger, but how a fluffy chick made the 60 yards of water swimming, is a new one for me to ponder?
We should see a Green Sandpiper any day now, but I always remain hopeful a Little Stint will show up and allow all of us to get a very old long awaited lifer for DP.
The hot afternoon was spent at home in the garden, nothing exciting to report, but the Swifts were having fun and I did see one large Sparrowhawk in semi display just to the North.
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