Saturday 2nd March 2024

 

One of the young gulls bred on the museum roof last year that had been down in London between Christmas and the New Year was back on the beach by the View Point this morning.

Windy. Offshore northbound 4 Gannet & Red-throated Diver with southbound single Brent, Pintail & Shelduck. Single Stock Dove is probably a returning individual.

Ringing: 1 Dunnock

Friday 1st March 2024

 

Pleasant enough for the first hour then all a bit grim with a SSE gale and rain arriving. Only thing to report is a first-winter Caspian Gull with Herring Gulls along the river.

2024 AGM

This years AGM will be held on Saturday 23rd March 2024. Members should have received an agenda plus minutes of last years meeting. If not please email landguardbomembership@gmail.com for details.

Thursday 29th February 2024

 

Nursery-web Spider Pisaura mirabilis in one of the moth traps this morning.

187 Cormorant went out fishing. 44 Brent went north plus 2 south. A male "stockamsel" type Blackbird was the first migrant Blacky of the spring on a fairly typical starting date. 3 Kestrel on the Butts is worth a mention. Rock Pipit & 3 Turnstone on the point.

Milder night so a couple of Hebrew Character in the traps. This is a common species although not one we get many of down here.

Ringing: 1 Blackbird.
 

Wednesday 28th February 2024

77 Cormorant went out fishing. Only new arrivals were a young male Kestrel, what is probably an additional Song Thrush plus, unexpectedly,  a single Knot on the beach late morning as this is a species that only rarely pitches in here.

Tuesday 27th February 2024

The first Chiffchaff of the year was near the point early morning - we only have three previous February records. No other migrants apparent. A Parakeet being mobbed by Crows over the Butts pond is probably one that has been knocking around Felixstowe. Rock Pipit on the point completes the offerings on a glorious calm morning.

Pine Beauty failed to make an appearance here in 2023 so good to get this one today.

Monday 26th February 2024

 

NNE gale. 113 Cormorant went out fishing. Only migrants noted were a handful of both adult Great & Lesser Black-backed Gulls drifting north plus a Great Crested Grebe going the same way in over an hour starring into the choppy yonder. 50 Starling on the southern half of the reserve during the morning may well have been contemplating heading back to the continent but bottled it in this gale. Single Rock Pipit still here and it was good to see a female Kestrel as only been noting the male so far this year.

Sunday 25th February 2024

 Foggy, misty, frosty start cleared into a pleasant morning. A Greenfinch was a first of the year with a Chaffinch only the second. Late pm about 700 Starlings went into roost at the north end.