Wednesday 16 May 2012

16th May 2012

Waders were the main attraction today with 3,500 Dunlin, 100 Knot and 300 Ringed Plover on the shore and identified amongst this great crowd was a single Curlew Sandpiper, a very scarce wader more often seen in autumn. Even more rare now than the Curlew Sandpiper was a Wall brown butterfly, found in the obs garden, probably the first for many years at Hilbre ( although it used to be more common ), and an excellent find in a poor butterfly spring on Hilbre (and everywhere else). Twenty five Swallows went through with a single House Martin and 6 Greenland Wheatears were on the island.
(BSB,DB,AAB)

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