17-28 °C,Wind NW 1-9mph,misty start after heavy rain and thunder storm last night then mostly clear and sunny, pressure 1015 hPa (600 ml of rain from last 2 nights)
Liplje - at home
Black Woodpecker calling
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling
2 Hawfinch
Yellow Hammer singing
2 Blackcap singing
Turtle Dove singing
Saturday, 19 July 2014
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
SUNDAY 13th jULY 2014
Lilje - front garden
Single flock of Starlings took me a bit by surprise as they were moving fast and at height more like a migrating flock than a post breeding feeding flock ?
The Hobby performed superbly dashing around our walnut tree after the Swallows which had recently arrived to rest amongst the dead branches. Its flashing aerobatics produced no results. Then it landed again giving excellent views at perhaps only 10 meters distance !
120 Starling over E
Hobby juv
10 Swallow 6 juvs
Single flock of Starlings took me a bit by surprise as they were moving fast and at height more like a migrating flock than a post breeding feeding flock ?
The Hobby performed superbly dashing around our walnut tree after the Swallows which had recently arrived to rest amongst the dead branches. Its flashing aerobatics produced no results. Then it landed again giving excellent views at perhaps only 10 meters distance !
120 Starling over E
Hobby juv
10 Swallow 6 juvs
Saturday, 12 July 2014
THURSDAY 10th JULY 2014
Liplje
Heard swifts calling and watched a tight flock moving quickly at high altitude.
First for Liplje.
All woodpeckers heard calling around home, the Lesser Pecker has been calling/singing here for over a week now which suggests it may be holding territory.
60 + Common Swift over E
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Black Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Heard swifts calling and watched a tight flock moving quickly at high altitude.
First for Liplje.
All woodpeckers heard calling around home, the Lesser Pecker has been calling/singing here for over a week now which suggests it may be holding territory.
60 + Common Swift over E
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Black Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
FRIDAY 4th JULY 2014
Cevetovac, north of Lazarevac
Possible sand and gravel Quarry next to E763
Saw this site from the road and decided to stop for a quick look. Absolutely huge quarry approximately 2km x 6km with another on the opposite side of the road about 10 x 3km.
Appears to have good potential for shore birds and passage species.
2 Ringed Plover
Northern Wheatear
Egret sp.
Gulls sp.
Possible sand and gravel Quarry next to E763
Saw this site from the road and decided to stop for a quick look. Absolutely huge quarry approximately 2km x 6km with another on the opposite side of the road about 10 x 3km.
Appears to have good potential for shore birds and passage species.
2 Ringed Plover
Northern Wheatear
Egret sp.
Gulls sp.
Sunday, 29 June 2014
WEDNESDAY 25th JUNE 2014
Liplje Circuit 2 06:00 - 09:00
The speed, flight pattern and general jizz suggested Ruff. Was also pretty sure the paler grey neck patch was indeed a ruff or remnant of.
The heronry which I recorded earlier in the year near the main road was difficult to survey and no doubt there were more birds hidden out of sight. Two of the adults were sitting on nests ?
Ruff ? over NE
9+ Grey Heron 6+juvs
9 Nightingale singing
Blackcap
6 Blackbird 3 singing
3 SongThrush singing
2 Turtle Dove singing
2 Golden Oriole singing
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woospecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
3 Red Backed Shrike 2 juv
Wood Lark singing
18 + Barn Swallow 9 juvs
5 Cirl Bunting 3 singing
1 Yellowhammer singing
Chaffinch
Greenfinch singing
Bee-eater
Pheasant
White Wagtail
Hooded Crow
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Odonata -
Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) male
Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa)
The speed, flight pattern and general jizz suggested Ruff. Was also pretty sure the paler grey neck patch was indeed a ruff or remnant of.
The heronry which I recorded earlier in the year near the main road was difficult to survey and no doubt there were more birds hidden out of sight. Two of the adults were sitting on nests ?
Ruff ? over NE
9+ Grey Heron 6+juvs
9 Nightingale singing
Blackcap
6 Blackbird 3 singing
3 SongThrush singing
2 Turtle Dove singing
2 Golden Oriole singing
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woospecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
3 Red Backed Shrike 2 juv
Wood Lark singing
18 + Barn Swallow 9 juvs
5 Cirl Bunting 3 singing
1 Yellowhammer singing
Chaffinch
Greenfinch singing
Bee-eater
Pheasant
White Wagtail
Hooded Crow
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Odonata -
Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) male
Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa)
Saturday, 21 June 2014
SATURDAY 21st JUNE 2014
12-22°C,Wind W 6-18mph,Mostly sunny with fair weather cloud,Pressure 1017 hPa
Liplje - Circuit 1
Red Backed Shrike pairs have now been seen at Raspberry Plantation, The Cemetery, The Lookout,South Bank, Rose Bank and probably a sixth pair at the Lightening Tree.
Redstart and female House Sparrow both seen dispatching large green grasshoppers
The Common Whitethroats seem somewhat subdued with just one singing briefly today. Are they already approaching the end of their breeding season ? surely not.
3 of the Wood Larks sitting around together were probably juvs.
Hobby
7 Red Backed Shrike
Redstart female
4 Wood Lark 1 singing
2 Turtle Dove singing
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Common Whitethroat singing
3+ Blackcap singing
6 Tree Sparrow
House Sparrow
Cirl Bunting singing
Yellowhammer singing
Chaffinch singing
Nightingales
2 Buzzard courtship display
4 Barn Swallow
4 Golden Oriole singing
Liplje - Circuit 1
Red Backed Shrike pairs have now been seen at Raspberry Plantation, The Cemetery, The Lookout,South Bank, Rose Bank and probably a sixth pair at the Lightening Tree.
Redstart and female House Sparrow both seen dispatching large green grasshoppers
The Common Whitethroats seem somewhat subdued with just one singing briefly today. Are they already approaching the end of their breeding season ? surely not.
3 of the Wood Larks sitting around together were probably juvs.
Hobby
7 Red Backed Shrike
Redstart female
4 Wood Lark 1 singing
2 Turtle Dove singing
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Common Whitethroat singing
3+ Blackcap singing
6 Tree Sparrow
House Sparrow
Cirl Bunting singing
Yellowhammer singing
Chaffinch singing
Nightingales
2 Buzzard courtship display
4 Barn Swallow
4 Golden Oriole singing
WEDNESDAY 18th JUNE 2014
Overcast ,dull raining
Ljig - the river just Soth of town. 20 min. walk.
For me the Common Sandpiper, (probably a returning female), is a first for Serbia. It looked at home on what has become a very rocky gravelly river bed since the flood.There has been an incredible amount of heavy material moved into great bars and beach's. All the previous well established vegetation which was growing in the river bed and no doubt providing useful habitat for all sorts of wildlife, has been swept clean away. Also just north of Ljig the river is probably twice its original width in places due to the sheer volume of water eroding the soft banks.
Common Sandpiper
Common Redstart juv
Serin singing
2 Nightingale singing
Ljig - the river just Soth of town. 20 min. walk.
For me the Common Sandpiper, (probably a returning female), is a first for Serbia. It looked at home on what has become a very rocky gravelly river bed since the flood.There has been an incredible amount of heavy material moved into great bars and beach's. All the previous well established vegetation which was growing in the river bed and no doubt providing useful habitat for all sorts of wildlife, has been swept clean away. Also just north of Ljig the river is probably twice its original width in places due to the sheer volume of water eroding the soft banks.
Common Sandpiper
Common Redstart juv
Serin singing
2 Nightingale singing
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