As has been mentioned on previous posts visible migration can be something of a hit and miss affair at the Lower Lea and today's session definitely leaned towards the latter with the only passerine migrants three Meadow Pipits heading south, but two overhead Grey Wagtails could have been migrants as the species has been a bit hard to find here recently. Common Teal numbered 162 and five Common Sandpipers were roosting, four on the Pura Foods peninsula and one in the traditional roost, but, surprisingly no Redshank were present. Two Sparrowhawks were also logged heading south and this fairly uneventful day was salvaged by three Peregrines indulging in a border dispute over Bow Creek; two of the birds were definitely a pair, the size difference very obvious even when they were way up, and the third bird was a tiercel, all three were adults; the pair eventually drifted off south towards the Thames with the lone tiercel circling off to the north-west.
No comments:
Post a Comment