54 Greylags with the Pinkfoot, 8 Gadwall, drake Wigeon, 8 Tufteds, fem Goldeneye, 9 Goosander ( 2 drakes) had increased to 13 (6 drakes) at dusk, 2 GC & 2 Little Grebes, ad Peregrine, Goshawk, two Red Kites over Ogston Hall/Lodge Plantation 1205-15, 2 Oystercatchers & a Willow Tit.
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Latest Ogston sightings
- 18 June 2018
Another quiet day but good to see both Oystercatcher families surviving; two pairs with two large (& flying) young with the pair that bred on the south tern raft and a smaller single with the pair off of the Chapel Bay tern raft, these having relocated & relaid after being predated on the island in […]
- 18 June 2018
An Arctic Tern briefly this morning with 4 Common Terns in addition to the two pairs present recently. Little else of note.
Other local sightings
- News 17/6/18
Thanks to Rod for the following:- OGSTON RESERVOIR This site is currently going through a purple patch. Steve Mann found a Manx Shearwater late morning on 14th June. Despite being heavily mobbed/harried by Great Black Backed Gulls it was still alive and well mid evening but not seen next day. This is apparently the 250th […]