{"id":1424,"date":"2022-05-12T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.171.192.198\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2022-06-04T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:21:58","slug":"may-2022-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"May 2022 &#8211; Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>30\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hen Harrier (male)<\/li><li>Whitethroat <\/li><li>Twite (x2)<\/li><li>[Reports of Sowerby\u2019s Beaked Whale dead on a beach]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>29\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Skua (x2)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>17\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver <\/li><li>Tufted Duck<\/li><li>Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)<\/li><li>Snipe<\/li><li>Redshank<\/li><li>Dunlin<\/li><li>Turnstone<\/li><li>Golden Plover<\/li><li>Corncrake<\/li><li>Great Skua<\/li><li>Hairy Rockcress<\/li><li>Short-necked Oil Beetle <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>16\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Shoveler (x2 males)<\/li><li>Hen Harrier (x2 &#8211; ring-tail and male)<\/li><li>Dunlin (x4 in cracking summer plumage)<\/li><li>Whimbrel (x7)<\/li><li>Corncrake<\/li><li>Arctic Tern<\/li><li>Twite (x4)<\/li><li>Early Purple Orchid (x4 locations)<\/li><li>Early Marsh Orchid (var coccinea)<\/li><li>Spring Squill<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>14\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Red-throated Diver (x2)<\/li><li>Whimbrel (x13)<\/li><li>Corncrake<\/li><li>Great Skua (x2)<\/li><li>Whitethroat (x3)<\/li><li>Blackcap<\/li><li>Grasshopper Warbler<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>13\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sanderling<\/li><li>Turnstone<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>12\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver <\/li><li>Sanderling (x10 &#8211; some in summer plumage)<\/li><li>Dunlin (x2)<\/li><li>Turnstone (x5 in summer plumage)<\/li><li>Corncrake<\/li><li>Mossy Saxifrage (in flower)<\/li><li>Common Whitlowgrass (in flower)<\/li><li>Cornsalad (in flower)<\/li><li>Early Purple Orchid (in flower)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>11\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver <\/li><li>Eider (a pair)<\/li><li>Whimbrel (x2)<\/li><li>Puffin<\/li><li>Common Dolphin (from ferry)<\/li><li>Bottlenose Dolphin (from ferry)<\/li><li>Harbour Porpoise (from ferry)<\/li><li>Otter (from ferry)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>10\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver <\/li><li>Red-throated Diver<\/li><li>Turnstone (x11 breeding plumage birds &#8211; stunning)<\/li><li>Hen Harrier<\/li><li>Peregrine (male)<\/li><li>Little Tern<\/li><li>Arctic Tern<\/li><li>Great Skua<\/li><li>Mossy Saxifrage (in flower)<\/li><li>Heath Spotted Orchid (in flower &#8211; new for year)<\/li><li>Belted Beauty moths (x2 females)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>9\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ringed Plover (x45)<\/li><li>Dunlin (x4)<\/li><li>Whimbrel<\/li><li>Hen Harrier<\/li><li>Great Skua<\/li><li>Arctic Tern (x6)<\/li><li>Brown Hare (x3)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>8\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Whimbrel<\/li><li>Hen Harrier<\/li><li>Peregrine<\/li><li>Great Skua<\/li><li>Fulmar<\/li><li>Grey Seal<\/li><li><em>Taraxacum obliquum<\/em> (a nationally rare species of dandelion in a new location)<\/li><li>Early Purple Orchid<\/li><li>Rue-leaved Saxifrage<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>7\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver <\/li><li>Eider<\/li><li>Red-breasted Merganser<\/li><li>Golden Plover<\/li><li>Great Skua<\/li><li>Black Guillemot<\/li><li>Chiffchaff<\/li><li>Blackcap (x2)<\/li><li>Whitethroat (x3)<\/li><li>Goldcrest (x4 singing)<\/li><li>Lesser Redpoll<\/li><li>Twite (x2 pairs in village)<\/li><li>Greenfinch <\/li><li>Grey Seal<\/li><li>Large Red Damselfy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>6\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Corncrake (amazing views of a bird in the open)<\/li><li>Golden Plover (x5+10)<\/li><li>Common Sandpiper<\/li><li>Whimbrel <\/li><li>Merlin (female)<\/li><li>Common Tern (x4)<\/li><li>Little Tern (x30)<\/li><li>Whitethroat (first of year)<\/li><li>Greenfinch<\/li><li>Brown Hare<\/li><li>Belted Beauty moth (x3 male, x1 female)<\/li><li>Angle Shades (moth)<\/li><li>Moss Carder bee (queen)<\/li><li>Early Purple Orchids (x30)<\/li><li>Mountain Everlasting (in flower)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>5\/5\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver <\/li><li>Red-throated Diver (at least 3 pairs)<\/li><li>Shelduck <\/li><li>Eider<\/li><li>Red-breasted Merganser<\/li><li>Common Sandpiper <\/li><li>Sanderling<\/li><li>Dunlin (x2)<\/li><li>Whimbrel<\/li><li>Snipe<\/li><li>Lapwing (with recently hatched young)<\/li><li>Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)<\/li><li>Sparrowhawk (female)<\/li><li>Common Tern (x10)<\/li><li>Arctic Tern (x6)<\/li><li>Little Tern (x4)<\/li><li>Twite<\/li><li>Early Purple Orchids 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