Patch Patrolling. Also Clennon.

Finding myself in the deep south - well, The Artist's patch - I wandered back north up the Bay to Home.

Starting at Clennon, where, well, lookit!

Spotted Flycatcher!

 

Two for one day on them!

:D

I'd taken some lunch along and sat myself down by the top pond, in very vain hope of an insanely early siberian warbler sp. of some sort.. [What? If you don't look....]. I wasn't expecting anything much, so two Spot Flys messing about was such a treat. Though getting them sat still long enough to get a pic was.. Interesting.

Also,

Common Darter

Very common

Tufty,

coming out of eclipse

Little Grebe and Kingfisher on the ponds, a couple of regular-flavour Chiffs by them.

Heading north, most - ok all - of the interest was on the shore / off it.

Marauding packs of Turnstones

mug unwary grockles...

"Your sammiches or

your face..."

Ahem.

A gull or two

Adult

3w

Assorted

22 Turnstones, 62 Med Gulls [and 120 BHGs] loitering at Preston, with at least as many again offshore messing about the flotsam and jetsam [the gulls, not the Turnstones]

Couple of Gannets

 out there, also.

More Meds at Torre Abbey, too.

Thus, I suspect, the major dissonance in numbers of Meds passing at Hope's Nose vs Berry Head.!

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