30 May 15

Priorslee Lake: 4:25am - 7:36am
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Telford sunrise: 4:53am

6.0°C > 9.0°C. Mainly clear and fine but with a few showers in the distance. Mainly light W wind. Very good visibility.

(69th visit of the year)

No highlights on a rather quiet day – clear sky so little visiting.

Notes
- 1 Swallow again using a yacht mast inside the Sailing Club compound to rest and preen
- 3 Goldcrests heard singing

Counts of birds flying over the lake (in addition to those on / around lake)
- 3 Greylag Geese (2 groups)
- 5 Canada Geese (2 groups)
- 1 Cormorant
- 17 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Herring Gull
- 4 Feral Pigeons (2 groups)
- 2 Collared Doves (1 group)
- 208 Jackdaws
- 96 Rooks

Count of hirundines etc
- 9 Swifts
- 6 Swallows
- 2 House Martins

Count of singing warblers
- 5 Chiffchaffs
- 13 Blackcaps
- 6 Reed Warblers

The counts from the lake area
- 2 + 1 Mute Swans
- 12 (7♂) Mallard- 7? + 2 (1 brood) Great Crested Grebes
- 2 Moorhens
- 27 Coots
- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull

This morning’s sunrise.

Here we see a Barn Swallow resting on top of a yacht mast in the Sailing Club compound.

I noticed this morning that the rain and showers yesterday have started to take their toll of the Hawthorn flowers and many of the petals are strewn about the ground. Will not see delights like this too much longer.

Looks in need of a good preen: this male Blackcap was unusually co-operative this morning.

(Ed Wilson)

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