Morning stroll. 9.30-11.30.
Lots of Gulls following the tractors working on the fields, at least 200 Lesser Black Backed Gull with c50 Black Headed and a few Herring Gulls.
On the flooded field were 12 Shelduck and 2 Ring type Plovers that were too far away to id.
The canal at Sollom had at least 9 Reed Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler and 5 Reed Bunting.
The river Douglas had another singing Reed Warbler, male Goosander and 4 Canada Geese.
Other sightings. Moorhen 4. Skylark. Yellowhammer. Common Whitethroat 5. Wheatear. Linnet. Goldfinch. Swallow 4. Cormorant overhead. Buzzard. Lapwing c45 including one with a single chick. Oystercatcher 3 with potentially more to come as 2 of them were mating.
Quite a few Frog tadpoles in the canal.
Butterflies. Lots of Orange Tip. Peacock 5. Small Tortoiseshell 4.
Sedge Warbler takes my score to 121
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