Went for the usual Sunday afternoon stroll around Rye Meads.
Fairly quiet. Numbers of ducks are up with increasing numbers of Shoveller and Teal. Probably bird of the day was a Reed Warbler (bit different to yesterday). Other highlights Great Spot, Kingfisher along river and 3 Common Gulls.
I found out from one the ringers that Gadwall is 3 times as numerous as Mallard and that Coots are present in record numbers. He was telling me that there were 101 Little Grebe present in the previous days count. I asked why we got so few Great Crested Grebe, apparently a couple of years back a lot of fish died. Little Grebes are probably feeding on snails.
Apparently there are more small fish now so hopefully………….
2 comments:
Great Crested are my favourites. I love the stripey young ones. They work so hard to find fish for the young ones that it's a miracle they ever pull through.
Let's hope they soon flourish again.
they are super birds. They are doing well at Amwell Gravel Pits and I think at Stansted Abbot Grevel Pits (which is literally a mile away).
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