Andy Field photographed two
mute swan cygnets at Cudmore Grove on a recent visit to the park.
When Andy visited the park on Friday 30th, birds of interest included a pair of common terns on the Golfhouse saltmarsh pools, no sign of any lapwing chicks in the Golfhouse paddock, and just one large chick seen in the grazing fields. Four sand martins were flying over the borrowdyke, a female kestrel by the nestbox in the oak tree and four pochard commuting between the park pond and the borrowdyke.
A little tern was reported a few days earlier by a birder with the Hitchin Sea Scouts sailing in the Colne. The barn owl has been seen by Matt Smith hunting over the park before opening time.
Along the Strood seawall on Friday were 3 Mediterranean gulls, buzzard, 2 stonechats, 2 sedge warblers, reed warbler and a whitethroat, also 15 swifts over the houses. A goldcrest was heard singing in the Firs Chase garden.
A
small tortoiseshell was feeding on a Pyracantha bush in Feldy View on Friday - the first sighting I've had this year of one.
A female
broad-bodied chaser was near Feldy View on Friday.
Also on Friday another
broad-bodied chaser appeared in the Firs Chase garden.
A brief visit onto the Strood seawall on Thursday 29th provided views of 40 swifts over the houses, buzzard, shelduck, 3 sedge warblers, 2 reed warblers and a whitethroat.
Three
sedge warblers were singing along the Strood borrowdyke on Wednesday 28th, also three
reed warblers singing too. Other birds noted were three
stonechats, two
yellow wagtails, Mediterranean gull, two
common terns, cuckoo on Ray Island and another over the Strood fields, while over the houses were 44
swifts and two
sparrowhawks. Two
grey herons flew over Firs Chase and a
green woodpecker was in Feldy View.
Michael Thorley photographed the
mute swan at Cudmore Grove with two cygnets on Tuesday 27th.
Another photograph by Michael of the
mute swan in the Cudmore Grove borrowdyke with the two cygnets on Tuesday.
Three whimbrel were seen off the meadow near Cudmore Grove by Mollie Kirk on Tuesday.
An ominous dark sky loomed over the Strood channel on Monday 26th.
Birds seen along the Strood seawall included two brent geese, pochard, common tern, marsh harrier, three Mediterranean gulls, two sedge warblers, two reed warblers, whitethroat, two stonechats and eight linnets.
A
common lizard was resting on a slate plaque in Feldy View on a sunny Sunday 25th. Two other
common lizards were also soaking up the sun on the plaques low in the grass.
A painted lady was seen by Martin Cock in his garden in The Coverts.
A few moths at the Firs Chase garden moth trap recently included this first
Eyed Hawkmoth for four years, seen on the 28th.
Four
Cockchafers were in the moth trap on 28th May.
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