Monday 2 May 2011

Amwell, King’s Mead, and Fowlmere

A superb morning at Amwell, gaining a Amwell and Hertfordshire bogey bird in the form of summer-plumaged Bar-tailed Godwit! Also saw…

Little Ringed Plover
Oystercatcher

Redshank
Buzzard x 6
Swift x 30?
Shelduck
Gadwall x 4
Common Tern x 12

Then on to King’s Mead for the first time in several years where the mud produced the following…

Greenshank x 2
Wood Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Little Ringed Plover

Fowlmere last thing was an anti-climax in comparison! Apart from a single Swift, there were just a couple of Cetti’s Warblers (one seen) and a heard-only Turtle Dove.