Sunday 3 July 2022

Sculthorpe Moor - 3rd July 2022

 A total of 41 birds on the record sheet. Great to see Chiffchaff as the leading species today supported by plenty of resident species juveniles, including Treecreeper, Marsh Tit and Kingfisher.

Age 3M Kingfisher

Only one adult, a Willow Warbler, in full moult today, but well advanced with just the four outer primaries still to drop and change as the other primaries and tail grow in.

Four to the 3, three to the 1,two to the 1, one to the 1, zero to the 4.
Adult Willow Warbler. 

The bonus bird was a darvic marked Mute Swan, not one of the two birds in the enclosure when we last visited.

Total: 36 (5)

Mute Swan - 0 (1 darvic 4ERL read in the field)
Kingfisher - 1
Wren - 4 (2)
Dunnock - 1 (1)
Blackbird - 1
Chiffchaff - 10
Willow Warbler - 1
Goldcrest - 2
Long-tailed Tit - 2
Marsh Tit - 2 (1)
Blue Tit - 6
Great Tit - 4
Treecreeper - 1