TROUBLE @LONDON WWT

London Wetland Centre; 2 Firecrest - including a fem found dead yesterday. Regrettably this is my last post from this site after sixteen years of passionate recording. I have been bullied and humiliated out by the senior wardens. As many of you know, they care little for birds (unless they are pinioned or stuck in the revolting upcoming aviary) and even less for birdwatchers. Clearly all is not well at "the nation's favourite nature reserve" , indeed it is rotten to the core. I feel a campaign coming on... (R. Kaye) What's the problem? I'm a WWT member and SBS financial supporter. I never feel unwelcome at LWC? (S Enright) - This comes as no surprise as one time I was refused admission, despite being a fully paid up member - the reason? - because they were running a wedding reception!! - all they seem to care about is the money : ( (JR). Some problems pertaining to scarce and Schedule one breeding species may be found in the paper "The Breeding Birds of London Wetland Centre" published in the London Bird Report for 2013 (JW). I recognize the bullying culture (DM).

Rainham Marshes: Great White Egret.Stoke Newington Reservoirs: Yellow-browed Warbler.Swanscombe Marsh: Ring Ouzel.

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HONEY BUZZARD,Common Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 10 Common Sandpiper, Little Egret.

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Alexandra Park: 2 Common Redstarts, including 1 ad male, in cricket scrub, 2 Whinchats along southern and western perimeter. Wryneck flew up from perimeter into small oak then into Cricket Scrub, plus still 2 Whinchats, female Common Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Wryneck still present in cricket scrub mid-afternoon.

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 Wood sandpiper (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today i found a local mega at Gallions reach a GREEN SANDPIPER.
Amwell: 2 Little Stint, Turnstone.London Wetland Centre: Wood Sandpiper.Staines Reservoirs: 5 Wood Sandpiper.Tyttenhanger: Wood Sandpiper.

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Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Gallions Reach: 1 Little Tern upriver @10.55, 18 Sandwich Tern, 9 Arctic Tern, 170 Common Tern, 2 Kittiwake (1ad 1 1st year).Brent Reservoir: 2 Little Egret, Ringed Plover, 4 Lapwing, Avocet KGV Reservoir: Smew, Pintail, Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat Rainham Marshes: Spoonbill, Turtle Dove. Staines Reservoirs: Black Tern. Wanstead Flats: Whinchat still pub scrub, 2 Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher.Amwell NR - 2 Little Stints still present from viewpoint.

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London Pom Skua imm pale morph flew north over Rainham Marshes RSPB at 12.10pm. Pomarine_skua

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Pectoral Sandpiper (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rainham Marshes: Pectoral Sandpiper on target pools c13.35.Barking Creek: Adult Iceland Gull (at creek mouth then on filter beds), 1st summer Med. Gull, c.40 Common, 1 Black and 2 Arctic Terns - most of terns flying upriver.London Wetland Centre: 3 Kittiwake NE, 3 Dunlin - 2 west & 1 grounded, female Blue-headed Wagtail.Staines Reservoirs: 1 Great Northern Diver summer plumage early am at least. Little Tern and 7 Arctic Terns.

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Eurasian Hoopoe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Waterworks NR: Hoopoe feeding on paths near the visitor centre at 10:30 but flew into shrub by railway line. Link
Gallions Reach: Lesser Whitethroat (KJMcmanus)

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English: Sandwich tern Wikipedia)

 Amwell: White-spotted Bluethroat front of watchpoint.
 Gallions Reach: Sandwich Tern, Arctic Tern, 20+ Common Tern, 2 Whimbrel, Curlew, Wheatear. Beddington SF: 3 Ring Ouzel, 2 Garganey, Common Redstart,
 Wormwood Scrubs: 1 female Ring Ouzel in Central Copse, 1 Nightingale briefly singing.

Bluethroat
Bluethroat 1

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A Eurasian Stone-curlew  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

London Wetland Centre: Grey Plover - winter plumage on grazing marsh Little Ringed Plover and Jack Snipe on wader scrape, 2 Buzzard over (a dark one east, and a pale one west, Stone Curlew - grazing marsh 15.45.Rainham Marshes: Spoonbill, 2 Marsh Harriers, 2 Greenshanks.Greenwich Park: 2 Brambling, 1 Osprey flying high and northwards.Gallions Reach: Raven east @ 10.38.

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Common Buzzard (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rainham Marshes: 34 Common Buzzard, 11 Marsh Harrier, male Hen Harrier, Raven, pair Garganey, Whimbrel, Ruff, Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover, Bearded Tit.Hampstead Heath:  10 Common Buzzard, first one high S at 11:10.Gallions Reach: Red Kite, 6 Common Buzzard (all east), Lapwing, 2 Curlew, 7 Swallow.Staines Moor: 5 Red Kite, 1 Common Buzzard.

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English: Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) Male Whiteworks, Dartmoor, Devon, England (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

King George VI Reservoir: 1 Northern Wheatear, 1 fem Black Redstart.Rainham Marshes: Sand Martin
Staines Reservoirs: 1 Great Northern Diver, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Water Pipit near tower S basin, 2 Pintail, 3 Redshank, 1 Red Kite over prior to 10.35. N basin. 1 Northern Wheatear.

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 Gallions Reach:Richards Pipit flushed from long grass near to radar tower 12.45. Circled landed again and then flew across to Armada Point into grassland. This area is fenced off next to the DLR depot, with no public access. The bird was not relocated.

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European Nightjar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Middlesex Filter Beds: Nightjar roosting on branch of elderberry tree,and still there when I left. Good bino views. From the pond walk towards the Hackney Marshes exit past a black bench. After another ~20-30 yards there is a large elder tree to the left. Look for the broken horizontal branch to the right about 12 ft above the ground and the bird is on that.

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 Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wanstead Flats: Probable Olive-backed Pipit low west from Coronation Copse towards Long Wood, called twice and distinctly from Tree Pipit, at 09:10.

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London: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER 1 at Regent’s Park. In area 41. In Sallows behind brambles, 50m from main path.

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 Stercorarius parasiticus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 Arctic skua.

QEII Reservoir: pale-morph ad Arctic Skua 07:35-07:45 then high NE.Queen Mother Reservoir: 2 dark-morph ad Arctic Skua till 0910 then SE.

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English: Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola at Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Beddington SF: Glossy Ibis landed on lake 1058. Juvenile Caspian Gull on main lake then flew to tip 1140.Crayford Marshes: Glossy Ibis flew south at 9am.Dagenham Chase LNR: Wood Sandpiper still present.

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TEMMINCK'S STINT 
Tyttenhanger GP: 2 Temminck's Stint  - also seen there yesterday pm.

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Andorinha Dáurica //Red Rumped Swallow (Photo credit: jvverde)

Southmere Lake, Thamesmead: Red-rumped Swallow  9:45 till 12:50 when flew off and no further sign by 3:00.King George Reservoir: 3 Arctic Tern.