Just a few notes on species and plumages not common seen at this web site.
Common winter guests on the web site are Black-headed Gulls, however this early spring we will see a number of people which have already a full-developed summer season plumage in the beginning of April. Plainly this yr the seasonal change is beginning a bit earlier.
One other indication of an earlier seasonal change is, that different winter guests, that stayed common on the web site as much as after mid-April have already left. These embrace for instance Mallard, Northen Shoveler, Widespread Shelduck and Comman Pochard. Others duck species like Tufted Duck, Eurasian Teal and Eurasian Wigeon are nonetheless current in smaller numbers.
Of particular notice this winter are six Garganey (4 male and two feminine) that keep on the web site now for over two weeks. All few former sightings of this species had been all the time just for a single day. That is very particular for the positioning, as a result of this species is never recorded within the nationwide winterbird censuses. The data within the final ten years are in January 2022 rely 1, November 2021 rely 6, January 2018 rely 1, January 2015 rely 12 and December 2014 rely 3.
In March the positioning was visited on two days by a number of Saunders’s Gulls, the primary day by seven and the second day by 5 and attracted some native photographers. There are a couple of single data for this species on the web site.
A extra common customer however all the time in very small numbers are Black-winged Stilt. A number of observers have seen these two people on a number of days simply beside a highway building space. Whereas the development actions appear to not impress them in any respect, they nonetheless keep distant from lively heavy equipment.
