So Autumn begins,
the Swifts had gone by the end of
the first week and quite a lot of the Sand
Martins too although a few were still attending nest holes at the top end
of Rawcliffe Ings most of the month, Swallow
and House Martin numbers remain
healthy. Tits and Warblers are now gathering into small
feeding flocks and probably include many birds passing through the area,
Clifton Park is a good spot for watching them with many Brambles and Elderberry
bushes to attract them, mainly just the common stuff but Lesser Whitethroats were noted on a couple occasions and three Spotted Flycatchers arrived on the 25th with eight there the next day. Not a good month for Raptors although it would seem two pairs of Sparrowhawks have bred with young birds calling from two separate
locations apart from that just a single Buzzard
sighting on the 10th. Most interesting sighting this month was of a Little Egret sat in a riverside bush
preening on the 15th, only my second sighting of this species here.
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| some images from this month, the river at Rawcliffe Ings |
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| Clifton Ings being grazed now |
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| Clifton Park |
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| Spotted Flycatcher |
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