With a rare whole day to myself I arranged to meet the Jims and head up to Frampton this morning. We arrived at 8am to find the car park half full but nobody in the actual car park scoping the floods so we set about scanning and quickly found the resident Lesser Yellowlegs to give Dad his first year tick of the day. The Black-winged Stilt dropped in at the far end of the flood and a Short-eared Owl flew over chased by angry Avocets and Blackwits. We also had three Yellow Wagtails, a White Wagtail, Great Egret, Greenshank, Spotted Redshank to name a few of the many birds present.
We moved on and a quick scan of the gulls on the main flood gave good views of two Little Gulls, an adult and first winter bird. From 360 hide we had good views of hundreds of waders mostly Dunlin and Knot and from the mound by Reedbed hide we found the Black Tern doing circuits between resting among the Dunlin flock. Then as the Black-headed Gulls drifted past the mound the guy next to me asks me to check an odd looking gull which turned out to be the Bonaparte's Gull.
We finished the day with a coffee and scone in the cafe before heading home after a great days birding which resulted in a day count of 84 species.
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| Avocet |
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| Black Tern |
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| Black Tern |
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| Black-winged Stilt |
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| Bonparte's Gull |
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| Dunlin |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs |
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| Little Gull (adult) |
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| Little Gull (First winter) |
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| Little ringed Plover |
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| Ringed Plover |
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| Ruff |
Year list now 191
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