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Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Spring rush

Ravensworth Fell - 20+ Wheatear and a Peregrine.
Watergate - 1 Black-necked Grebe,2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Tern, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Dipper, 1 Grey wagtail and 1 Green Woodpecker. Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff and Willow Tit singing.





Black-necked Grebe at Watergate [various photographers]


Lamesley Water Meadows - 1 Yellow, 19 White and 3 Pied Wagtail. 2 Oystercatcher and pair Gadwall. Tree Sparrow by house and 1 Wheatear


Yellow Wagtail at Lamesley [Paul Davidson]


Kibblesworth Grange - 2 Yellow, 1 White and 2 Pied Wagtail. 2 Oystercatcher,2 Redshank and 1 Snipe.
Shibdon Pond - 2 Common Sandpiper and 1 Kingfisher.










Common Sandpiper at Shibdon [Steven Fryer]

 Moth trap overnight at Greenside

Taxa
0468  Rhigognostis incarnatella  1
0688  Agonopterix heracliana  1
1663  March Moth (Alsophila aescularia)  1
2182  Small Quaker (Orthosia cruda)  2
2187  Common Quaker (Orthosia cerasi)  3
2188  Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta)  1
2190  Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica)  6
 

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