Trip reports

AN EVENING WALK AROUND RSPB RYE MEADS

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Friday, 3 July 2009

Derrick Ling led our last walk of this season, joined by 11 people on a glorious summer's evening with a beautiful sunset.

The evening began on a high note with excellent views of a peregrine on the top of a pylon across the road from the car park, everyone arrived in time to see it. Other highlights during the evening were greenshank, 12 green sandpipers and a little ringed plover in front of the Draper Hide; a little egret flying over the lagoons; 3 broods of pochards, with some fine drakes still in breeding plumage; and three juvenile kestrels on the pylon nest boxes.

42 Species seen:
Little grebe, cormorant, grey heron, little egret, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, teal, shoveler, tufted duck, pochard, peregrine, kestrel, pheasant, moorhen, coot, little ringed plover, lapwing, greenshank, green sandpiper, black-headed gull, lesser black-backed gull, common tern, stock dove, wood pigeon, collared dove, swift, green woodpecker (heard), great spotted woodpecker, reed warbler, sedge warbler, Cetti's warbler (heard), whitethroat, blackbird, song thrush (heard), wren (heard), chaffinch, greenfinch, starling, magpie, carrion crow.

Many thanks to Derrick for leading this walk.