I spent a good few hours wandering around Ulrome/Barmston yesterday and it was thoroughly absorbing and enjoyable.
Sighting of the day was a couple of Whimbrel on the beach, sound of the day was a singing Corn Bunting and miss of the day was an all-too-brief view of a brownish butterfly with patterned wings - possible Grayling? I spent an hour trying to relocate it but never saw it again.
Birds
| Swallow |
Great Crested
Grebe |
Moorhen |
| Sand Martin |
Common Scoter |
Oystercatcher |
| Whitethroat |
Yellowhammer |
Starling |
| Sedge Warbler |
Meadow Pipit |
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| Chiff Chaff |
Skylark |
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| Willow Warbler |
Linnet |
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| Yellow Wagtail |
Reed Bunting |
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| Sandwich Tern |
Pied Wagtail |
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| Whimbrel |
Dunlin |
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Butterflies
| Peacock |
Large White |
| Red Admiral |
Small White |
| Comma |
Green-veined White |
| Speckled Wood |
Meadow Brown |
| Gatekeeper |
Ringlet |
| Small
Tortoiseshell |
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Other sightings
Weasel
Shaded Broad-bar moth
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| Two Whimbrel on Ulrome beach |
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| Two Dunlin |
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| Dunlin |
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| Juvenile Yellow Wagtail |
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| Whitethroat |
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| Sedge Warbler |
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| Starling |
I had a 10 minute show performed by a weasel that was dancing and diving around near a rabbit. I have no idea what it was doing but the rabbit wasn't impressed. I was alerted to the fact there was something going on by the rabbit jumping in the air, and I guess it was the weasel that caused that.
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| The weasel and the rabbit | |
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| A Yellowhammer joined the party... |
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| but the weasel soon saw it off |
While I was looking for the unid butterfly I came across a moth species I hadn't seen before - Shaded Broad-bar.
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| Shaded Broad-bar moth |
Out at sea lots of Common Scoter were passing and five Great Crested Grebes were drifting by.
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| Common Scoters |
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| More Common Scoters |
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| Great Crested Grebes lazily drifting |
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| Great Crested Grebes |
Talking of lazily drifting by - a fisherman in a kayak did just that.
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