Earlier in the week Tom managed to get a free half day, so he went to Staines Moor after a quick trip to the reservoir. The reservoir was rather busy, with highlights of bar-tailed godwit (summer plumage), comic terns, the mallard/tufted duck hybrid family, little gull and quite literally hundreds of swifts (as well as the usual GC grebes, red kite etc.).
On the moor it was nice to see the first butterflies including battling speckled woods, a brimstone and a holly blue- I was also surprised to be mobbed by a male emperor moth. Along with the first whitethroats and wheatears, the number one highlight had to be the dozen or so yellow wagtails...
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| Wheatears on yellow meadow ant hills. |
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| Wheatears on yellow meadow ant hills. |
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| Male and female yellow wagtails. |
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| My three sightings of yellow wagtail since moving down to Egham in September... slowly getting better sightings and better photographs of these stunning birds. |
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