Wednesday 9 May 2007

Patch watching

1st of May...lovely sunny day so had to go birding.Added to the year list (not sure if I had said that I had seen both Swallows and Swifts now.
To Staines Reservoir....Common Terns (elegant birds)
Staines Moor ---- Sedge Warblers

The next day I went to Barnes and first year bird a Black Tern!
To the Wader Scrape hide and there amidst the LRPs, Redshanks and Lapwings were two Wood Sandpipers and I thought I didn't know these were here. They arrived today!
Later I saw a Greenshank..well two and on the Lake a Common Sandpiper was found by another birder who kindly pointed it out!

Lots of migrants still to see. I am not chasing around this year just seeing what I see where I go.