Pip H and I took a stroll around Meadow Lane DP’s this afternoon…… a Chiffchaff was along the hedgerow as we
passed Bedford STW, over to the east on the field beside the cycle path just
before it crosses the A421 were hundreds of Lapwings with an estimate 1.5 to 2 thousand Golden Plovers – a
spectacular sight, 2 single
Redshanks flew up as did 5 Common
Snipe.
Later we visited Chimney Corner
South ClP where a pair of Pintail
was my third self-found year tick of the day taking me up to 95 species so far
this year; at least 34 Magpies
were gathering amongst the bushes along the north-west
side.
It was bleak and rainy at Stewartby
Lake around 4.30 but the juvenile Great
Northern Diver was initially seen by the water-ski hut and very soon
after some 600m close just by us at the old green hut viewpoint along Green
Lane. Nought of note in the gulls excepting there were only two larger
individuals – both L B Backs.
Redshank and Pintail take my
personal tally for Beds this year up to 104, the overall list standing at 114 –
I’ll send out a full list for January at the weekend.
MJP
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