Greenfinch: 2 adults, 4 juveniles, (plus Blue Tit and Goldfinch).
Juvenile Meadow Pipit: scruffy, lacks the clearly defined flank streaks of an adult, long hind claw.
Little Ringed Plover
Teal. I think that the orange at the bill base makes this a female, rather than an eclipse male?
33 Swifts SW
Common Sandpiper: 3 adults, with one (photographed) performing distraction display.
AND: 423 Swifts flying SW
BLACKSTONE EDGE: Wheatear 3; Grey Heron 1 flying NE across the Pennine watershed
There are still 5 Mute Swans here. One adult has ring 628Y, as noted on 4 June. It looks as if she has been joined by a male and 3 one year old offspring.
Two Grasshopper Warblers were seen on Soil Hill this morning, flushed from long grass as I was passing, an adult and juvenile. Adult perched briefly before dropping back into the vegetation. Sedge Warbler is also still present and singing almost constantly. In total five species of warbler were present on the site this morning.
5 Mute Swans here today: 2 adult + 3 in 2nd calendar year
I was beginning to worry that the Sedge Warbler territory from the last couple of years might not be returning to the site this year, so it was a very pleasant surprise to find this individual in fine song this morning; throwing in some excellent Oystercatcher and Reed Bunting into its usual repertoire of clicks and scratchy song notes. Also first Willow Warbler fledglings out this morning, and a fledgling Wheatear, the first time I have recorded one in June here.
