An
adder was basking beside the path on top of the seawall at Maydays farm on Saturday 22nd. This appears to be a favoured spot for them in recent years, just east of the main seawall corner.
On the Pyefleet mudflats beside Maydays on Saturday was the regular leucistic
redshank, here feeding with a
grey plover. Also noted were two
great crested grebes, greylag goose, 30
golden plover, four
Mediterranean gulls, five
marsh harriers, three
buzzards, ten
lapwings on Reeveshall, pair of
stonechat and
yellowhammer.
A
red-legged partridge was seen in Haycocks Lane on Saturday, also a
chiffchaff singing beside the lane too.
A distant
Chinese Water Deer feeding in a field at Maydays farm on Saturday.
A white wagtail was feeding in a horse paddock just north of the country park on Saturday photographed by Andy Field, also a very early sedge warbler singing beside the park dyke and three singing chiffchaffs heard during his walk.
Steve Entwistle visited East Mersea on Saturday afternoon and saw three goldfinches by the pub, 13 meadow pipits, 4 linnets, 12 moorhens and a barn owl early evening - all by the Golfhouse.
There was a report of a whitethroat by the Dog and Pheasant pub on Saturday, which is very early record.
A hummingbird hawkmoth was seen briefly by Martin Cock in his West Mersea garden on Saturday morning.
The
black brant was feeding on the edge of the mud near the Monkey Beach on Friday 21st. Also 200
brent geese in this area and on Cobmarsh and Packing Marsh Islands, while offshore were 10
great crested grebes. A
little egret, two singing
Cetti's warblers and six
linnets were seen at St Peters.
A
red kite flew over the Firs Chase caravan park on Thursday 20th, then passed slowly over Feldy View before continuing slowly east. Three
buzzards and two
marsh harriers were also seen during the walk along the Strood seawall.
A pair of
kestrels perched on a tall willow tree by the Strood dyke on Thursday.
The male
kestrel looks a bit scruffy on its chest feathers, maybe it's had a dip in the water.
The female
kestrel peering down from the tree beside the Strood seawall on Thursday.
Along the dyke from the perched
kestrels, was the regular female
kingfisher, seen here having a stretch and a yawn before flying off. A
water rail called from the main Strood reedbed, while in the channel were 100
teal, 100
wigeon, two
avocets, 25
black-tailed godwits and one
knot.
Four chiffchaffs were heard singing between Firs Chase and the Strood seawall, also a siskin flew over Feldy View and a female blackcap in the Firs Chase garden.
A female blackcap was also seen in Steve Entwistle's garden in Empress Drive on Thursday.
A brimstone butterfly was seen by the Firs caravan park and another in the Firs Chase garden.
A
comma butterfly was enjoying the sunshine on the Strood seawall on Wednesday 19th.
A brimstone was seen in Feldy View both in the morning and by Steve Entwistle in the afternoon.
The sunshine on Wednesday saw several raptors in the air by the Strood including three
buzzards, one pictured, three
red kites,
marsh harrier and a
sparrowhawk.
A grey wagtail flew off a waterlogged corner of field by the Firs Caravan park, then flew north. Other birds noted were a kingfisher, 300 brent geese, 120 wigeon, 100 teal, four avocets, 60 golden plover, 12 black-tailed godwits, one knot and the pair of coot in the dyke. Two chiffchaffs were singing and the wintering blackcap in Firs Chase.
A
buzzard was photographed by Jack Hoy from his car as he drove down Haycocks Lane on Wednesday.
Steve Entwistle visited the Shop Lane seawall on Wednesday afternoon to watch the harriers come into the Langenhoe roost and was rewarded with a male hen harrier at 6pm, then a ringtail hen harrier appeared at 6.17 before dropping straight in, also 13 marsh harriers into the roost.
Also seen were 2 Canada geese, 22 shelduck, 8 red-breasted mergansers, 10 grey plover, 45 dunlin, 5 curlew, 6 oystercatchers, 30 redshank, 2 great crested grebes, buzzard, 18 teal, 2 wigeon, two greylag geese, grey heron, stonechat, as well as a chiffchaff in Fishponds Wood.
A
Twin-spotted Quaker was in the garden moth trap in Firs Chase on 19th.
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