Total UK Species in April 2022: 65
New “Year Ticks” in April 2022: 11
New “Life Ticks” in April 2022: 0
Total Species for 2022 so far: 110
April 2022 archive
Apr 30 2022
April 2022 Summary
Apr 26 2022
Pennington Flash 26th April 2022
The birding group visit to Pennington Flash on the 26th April turned out to be a really, warm and sunny day with very little wind. The foliage is all back on the trees now, making spotting birds trickier, but they are full of bird song. We got lots of warblers but also three Spring visitors.
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Burton Mere Wetlands 19th April 2022
The birding group had a morning out to Burton Mere Wetlands on 19th April. The rain held off to give us a nice Spring day and the birds were definately full of spring themselves with lots of Wrens, Cetti’s and other small birds dashign around everywhere collecting nesting material and some even seemed to be collecting food items indicating nesting was happening – perhaps even chick rearing already!
So, apart from the general joy of Spring in the air we also got some year firsts as the warblers arrive for the breeding season.
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Burton Mere Wetlands 11 April 2022
A morning out to Burton Mere Wetlands promised the possibility of Garganey as well as all the other usual species. As it happened, we got four new year ticks and some very good views of a bird that had proved very elusive on a previous visit.
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