Well another dire weekend weather wise - cool and wet but at least Saturday wasn't windy! Yesterday was so bad we actually went to a shop something unheard of at a weekend but with a brief respite in the rain we nipped out locally to find a Red Kite circling over Bagmoor thinking this maybe a promising sign we carried on to Reads Island and later to Barton but apart from lots of Shelduck the only real bird of note was a Little Egret on the roadside pool at S Ferriby. Today we decided to concentrate on Messingham and surrounding area and managed a total of 69 species, most notable records were broods each of Avocet, Shoveller, Pochard, Shelduck and 4 drumming Snipe and 2 Cuckoos. The highlight of the weekend though has to be our garden, it is positively a feeding frenzy of chicks at the moment with the following competing for the feeders; broods of Great, Coal and Blue Tits, 2 Dunnock juvs, G S Woodpeckers with juv, 2 Nuthatches and a fabulous male Bullfinch. The pond is also teaming with life, an hour of pond dipping produced a myriad of species most of which remain unidentified but plenty of creatures we do know with dozens of Newts, Southern Hawker and Damselfly nymphs, Lesser Boatmen, Backswimmers and Great Diving Beetle.
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