Breeding Birds
We surveyed the Avocets yesterday and counted 20 nests across
the site. The nest boxes are doing well, we have 6 Blue Tit broods (totalling 47
chicks),1 Great Tit brood (6 chicks) and the Tree Sparrows are doing well with
15 chicks already fledged, 5 chicks till in the nest and 4 pairs on second
clutches (21 eggs).
Black-headed Gull chicks are popping out all over. These birds (below) can bee seen well from the Discovery Hide. Look out for Lesser Black-backed Gulls swooping in to grab a meal..
Two pair of Common Tern present with the possibility of 2 other pairs investigating the small island on the back of the Mere to breed.
On the Mere today 35 Gadwall.
Cuckoo calling on the Reed Bed/Canoe Safari Area.
Peregrine hunting over the reserve late morning.
At least 50 Swift early afternoon.
A flock of 11 Dunlin and 9 Ringed Plover dropped in mid afternoon.
