Out and about 21/4

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John Frankland
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Out and about 21/4

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Highlights :

Wards reservoir
*Grasshopper Warbler 1 or 2 reeling
* Common Sandpiper 2
Bullfinch 2

White Coppice
Cuckoo showing well and calling on moorside near peacock cottage
Willow Warbler 30-40 in song
Redpoll 3
Chiffchaff 1

Wymott Ponds
* Whitethroat 1 on entrance road
Bullfinch 2 pairs
Blackcap 6-8
Chiffchaff 2

Eyes Lane
Ringed Plover types 3 of which 1 was definite Little Ringed and probably 2 Little/1 Ringed as the split.

Croston Reedbed
* Reed Warbler 1 in song
Nearby on muck heaps further up Meadow Lane, a very pale Pied/White Wagtail looked interesting but I wasn’t convinced on White. It was with another Pied.

Twin Lakes
Great Crested Grebe 5
Tufted Duck 2
Goldcrest 1 singing

* 4 new ones takes me 127 species for the year.
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