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Before my 5.30pm business appointment with another client, I spent an hour or so at Bedhampton Slipway hoping to notch up a few more month ticks. The weather wasn’t too bad with bright, though overcast skies, but a brisk southerly wind kept the temperatures down, well below average for this time of year.
The tide was up within Langstone Harbour and the water was a little choppy but I had no problems in locating a Great Crested Grebe nearby on the water. A big surprise was the discovery of a pair of Common Scoters swimming just north of the islands, with the drake being the most active of the pair, seen diving every so often. I kept a constant look out for Terns and notched up several Common Terns, but, today, the Little Terns eluded me.
Along the shoreline, by Budds Farm, I picked up a resting Whimbrel on the concrete bar going out into the harbour. A Herring Gull frightened it and the Whimbrel then flew to the nearest shoreline and rested there with a Curlew nearby for company. Not a great deal else of note, but I did get my first Pied Wagtail of the month, a juvenile scurrying around behind me by a small puddle.
Nationally, no monstrous ‘rare’s’ to report but locally, the long staying Squacco Heron has reappeared at Radipole Lake, Weymouth again. Portland is doing well with good counts of both Balearic and Manx Shearwaters but little on the land. Finally, the long staying Killdeer is still on the Mainland, Shetlands. Any chance of someone flushing it and then makes its way south please?!!
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