Thursday 29 August 2013

Little Stint gets angry

Around the racecourse & Hackney Marshes this morning were 1 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear, 7+ Chiffchaff, 15+ Linnet, 30+ Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Yellow Wagtail and 2 Green Woodpecker. Overhead 1 Tree Pipit and 6 Ravens, and a mixed group of 200+ Swallows and House Martins. Keeping a close eye on proceedings were singles of Kestrel, Sparrowhawk and Buzzard.

The juvenile Little Stint was still at Flow Point at midday, keeping around the periphery of the wader flock and ferociously chasing off any Dunlin that came too close! Perhaps it had a case of "small wader syndrome"...


A very brief look at Passage House shortly afterwards produced 1 Greenshank and 1 Common Gull.

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