12.0°C: Mostly cloudy after earlier rain moved away. Light ENE wind. Very good visibility.
[Sunrise: 07:17 BST]
No photos again today.
Stayed indoors and dry this morning only venturing to The Flash later.
The Flash: 13:24 – 14:34
(195th visit of the year)
Bird notes:
- The Tufted Duck were mostly asleep and with a higher light-level than during my usual visits I was able to confirm a greater number of drakes.
Birds noted flying over / near The Flash
- 2 Common Buzzards
- 2 Wood Pigeons
- 3 Jackdaws
Warblers logged
None
Counts from the water:
- 3 + 7 (1 brood) Mute Swans
- 3 Greylag Geese
- 11 Canada Geese
- 38 (23♂) Mallard
- 79 (>27♂) Tufted Duck
- 1 Great Crested Grebe only
- 10 Moorhens yet again
- 43 Coots
- 6 Black-headed Gulls
On various lamp poles:
- 1 Hawthorn Shieldbug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)
- 1 Dicranopalpus ramosus-type harvestman
- 1 Leiobunum rotundum-type (harvestman)
Otherwise:
- Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris): the sole but abundant insect on the Ivy.
- 1 Grey Squirrel
- 1 Brown Rat
A small and rather hidden sign has been present for some days warning of the presence of Rodenticide. The rat was still as active as ever.
(Ed Wilson)
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1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull
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c.150 Black-headed Gulls
15 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
1 Great Black-backed Gull
Shoveler
(Ed Wilson)