After a quiet few days on the patch, where the lingering pair of wigeons were the highlight, it was good to get out and do a BBS near Chelford this morning.
The same two little ringed plover nests were still actively incubating, with another pair present too. Lapwings with eggs and young were present too, despite the relentless dog walking here. Not a lot else of note, aside from singing sedge warblers.
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| Lapwing nest |
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| Lapwing chick, still with egg tooth |
Later in the day I sneaked out of the office early and skipped down to the RSPB Burton Mere reserve to see the lovely buff-breasted sandpiper found earleir today, a real cracker as this American visitor always is. Birds galore on the reserve, most surprising of which were the cattle egrets on a nest in the little egret colony. As far as I know this is the first breeding attempt here and possibly in the UK. The egret cacophony was entertaining too. Also a spoonbill, along with stacks of black-tailed godwits, avocets, ruff, snipe and dunlin providing entertainment.
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| phone-scoped buffy! |
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| Better image by John Tyman |
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| Breeding cattle egrets, climate change in action! |
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