Wednesday 15 April 2015

Three Mornings at Seasalter

13th April

A lovely bright and still morning so I went up to Wraik Hill hoping for nightingales, none singing but a willow warbler, blackcap and chiffs on the top of the hill but no nightingale. Couldn't hear any on Foxes Cross Hill slope but a call later from GB alerted me to return as he had now heard one in song which I heard from the car!  Down at the seafront there were quite a few sedge warblers, chiffs plus a whitethroat and a couple of stonechats.  Brian Watmough recorded a white-spotted bluethroat on the LNR early morning.  

14th 

Another sunny day where I walked along the LNR hoping for yesterday's WS bluethroat but no luck, instead, 1 swallow, 2 house martins and a wheatear. Back at the NRA and 'island' 16 ringed plovers and 1 dunlin (first this month).

15th

Today, loads of sedge warblers but couldn't hear a reed warbler (maybe the ears) however, I clearly heard several reels of one or perhaps two grasshopper warblers. Also, 4 cetti's, 1 marsh harrier, whitethroat, 5 swallows, a couple of blackcaps and a cuckoo, my first this year. Out on the sea 2 lesser black-backed gulls and two grebes in courtship. By the YC 2 Sandwich and one common tern and by the huts 2 wheatears, a dozen plus linnets and goldfinches. Nice to hear all the skylarks singing, seem to be making a come back here.

 Sedge Warbler

Linnet female

Meadow Pipit



Skylark



Wheatear

Whinchat by Geoff Burton

A  late pm visit to Seasalter by Geoff Burton found and photographed this whinchat and also saw a redstart.

1 comment:

Warren Baker said...

Lovely set of images today Mike, hoping to find a cuckoo soon here too :-)