After a day of steady rain during which time no birding had taken place, I was starting to get twitchy by late afternoon. Surely the rain would have knocked something from the skies and into Morton Bagot.
So off I trotted for a quick look.
Normally at this point I report that nothing had turned up. Nothing had turned up. But, it wasn't boring. The Black-tailed Godwit which I claimed to have flown off yesterday was actually still here and showing well on the nearest flash.
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| Black-tailed Godwit - juvenile |
Other than that it was pretty much the usual stuff, five Green Sandpipers, 35 Teal, 14 Snipe, and lots of hirundines. Counting the latter is extremely difficult, but the wires at Church Farm definitely contained 45 House Martins and 21 Swallows before they all flew off. The problem was that the melee over the flash field contained well over 100 birds, and at least one Sand Martin.
A tit flock by the footpath gate at the flash was very entertaining, but the only migrants within it were Chiffchaffs.
Thus ended a rather good bank holiday weekend.
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