{"id":9291,"date":"2022-09-30T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2022-10-02T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T11:07:18","slug":"summary-september-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2022\/09\/summary-september-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2022 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

New \u201cYear Ticks\u201d in September 2022: 0
New \u201cLife Ticks\u201d in September 2022: 4
Total Species for 2022 so far: 159<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

September continued in a quiet vein. We had a day out at Burton Mere Wetlands on 6th September<\/a> where we got our first Curlew Sandpipers of the year at Inner Marsh Farm hide and also two Green Sandpipers on the main scrape – there seems to have been a few Green Sandpipers around this year. At Parkgate the water levels were lowish so attracting some waders. Among a fair variety was our first Little Stint of the Year – all the Stints we had seen previously in 2022 had been Temminck’s !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was it for the month except for our visit to Scotland where we stayed at Aberdeen and Musselburgh between 19th – 26th September <\/a>which was principally to visit relatives and not a birding trip. Be that as it may, I got my first Eider and first Bar-tailed Godwit of the year at the Ythan Estuary which was as amazing as usual – I could spend hours and hours at the dunes near the golf club at Newburgh – but we didn’t have much time. Although we got our first Bar-tailed Godwits on the Ythan estuary, by far the more impressive was a group of fifty or so of them wading on the low tide just at Fisherrow harbour where we had rented an air bnb apartment for a few days whilst visiting family. We also managed a quick visit to Musselburgh Lagoons which turned out to be heaving with birds. I regret not taking my scope there but we didn’t really have much time for birding. The weather was very good throughout our trip to Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Year Ticks for September 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Curlew Sandpiper at Burton Mere Wetlands 6th<\/sup> September 2022<\/li>
  2. Little Stint at Parkgate 6th<\/sup> September 2022<\/li>
  3. Eider at Ythan Estuary 22nd<\/sup> September 2022<\/li>
  4. Bar-tailed Godwit at Ythan Estuary 22nd<\/sup> September 2022<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    New \u201cYear Ticks\u201d in September 2022: 0New \u201cLife Ticks\u201d in September 2022: 4Total Species for 2022 so far: 159<\/p>

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