Birds on Flooded Fields between Endon and Longsdon.

After about 30mm of rain over the past three days the Endon Valley is flooded once again.

This afternoon many of birds were feeding, preening resting and flying in and over the flooded fields.

The photos shows an area of shallow water (up to breast height on LBB gulls). This area contained:
25+ Lesser Black-backed Gulls
35+ Lapwing
c250 Black-headed Gulls
30+ Starling
c5 Carrion Crows
 1 Magpie
2 Buzzards

The recently ploughed and sowed field beyond held:
perhaps another 200 BH Gulls
more LBB Gulls
more corvids

In the small rush fringed seasonal pool (next to the wildfowl scrape) were a few male and female Mallards
On a deeper floodwater pool further towards Longsdon there was:
4 juvenile Tufted Ducks (these may be the four ducklings that were reared on the Caldon Canal this year - see photo)

Further along on another shallower area (near Hazlehurst Junction) there were:
another c15 BH Gulls
c20 Jackdaws
c5 Rooks
c10 Carrion Crows
Also seen were;
a Kestrel
2-5 Jays

Endon Valley floodwater.

 



One of four juvenile Tufted Ducks that were reared on the Caldon Canal between Endon and Longsdon this year.