{"id":6331,"date":"2013-09-07T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2013-09-08T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T14:10:49","slug":"local-patch-update-summer-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/local-patch-update-summer-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Patch Update – Summer Period"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSince my last update in June, here we are at the end of the summer<\/span><\/strong>. During July & August I managed a few new birds for the year, helping to move my Staunton Harold Year List on to 118 by the end of August. Common Tern increased to a maximum of 10 adults on the 13th July. On the 2nd July 8 Curlew<\/span> flew over the reservoir and a Green Sandpiper <\/span>on the 3rd July. During the summer period at least 1 adult Yellow-legged Gull has been present almost daily with a maximum of 3 adults on 23rd August. The 2nd summer Yellow-legged Gull was last seen during mid July.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAn adult summer Common Gull was an unusual sight on the 10th,11th & 12th July. Also 2 Egyptian Geese<\/span> turned up on 12th July and were last seen on 24th August. A Muntjak was walking along the far shoreline early morning on the 13th July. Two female type Common Scoter<\/strong> made a brief appearance on 23rd July and also another Common Gull and 3 Common Sandpiper.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tDue to low water levels, I was expecting a Little Egret<\/span> to arrive at some stage during the summer and sure enough I found one on 3rd August and then a maximum of three on 12th, 21st & 28th August. During the summer the resident Tufted Duck flock increased to a maximum of 138 on several days during August. What will surely be one of the most amazing sights of the year was the brief arrival of a flock of 35 Arctic Terns<\/strong> on 23rd August. They spent a few minutes feeding, plunge bathed and disappeared high to the south, all over, all too quickly. Waders have been few and far between but a juvenile Ringed Plover on 21st August was a nice find. Also one or two Yellow Wagtails, (another scarce bird here) through on several mornings in August. \n<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally  as the Black-headed Gull numbers started to build up, I was fortunate to find a juvenile \/ 1st winter Mediterranean Gull<\/span> on the dam wall, amongst 500 Black-headed Gulls on the early evening of 27th August, a nice way to round off my summer's birding at my local patch.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Yellow-legged-Gull-22753125\" \"Yellow-legged-Gull-22713124\"\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA new adult Yellow-legged Gull<\/strong> arrived on 24th August 2013. – Tony Davison©<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my last update in June, here we are at the end of the summer. During July & August I managed a few new birds for the year, helping to move my Staunton Harold Year List on to 118 by the end of August. Common Tern increased to a maximum of 10 adults on the 13th July. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,18,529,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-203","category-birds","category-birdsof2013","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}