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| Beddington Sewage Farm (TQ290662) (website) | Habitat:
old style sewage farm, with drying beds (disused), sludge lagoons,
large area of scrub, with areas now under gravel excavation, with open
water. Due to be landscaped upon completion into a general recreation
area.
NO public access. Only access is to members of the Beddington Bird Group.
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Species: All year: Tree Sparrow Summer: the site can very quite, with common waterbirds and garden birds; though anything could turn up. Passage: Occasional Geese fly over the site, with the odd Common Scoter, Scaup, and Red-breasted Merganser turning up on the gravel workings; the occasional Marsh and Hen Harrier, Osprey, Hobby; most wader species pass through such as Oystercatcher, Golden and Grey Plover, Sanderling, Little Stint, Dunlin, Whimbrel, Wood Sandpiper and Turnstone; the occasional Skua flying through; Little Gulls; Sandwich, Arctic, Little, or Black Terns; Short-eared Owl, Turtle Dove, plus passerines in the scrub areas as Larks, Pipits, Wheatear, Whincat, Redstart, the occasional Black Redstart and Ring Ouzel. Winter: the odd unusual duck on the gravel workings, Peregrine, Jack Snipe, Mediterranean Gulls, plus the odd Glaucous or Iceland Gull, occasionally Long and Short-eared Owls, Water Pipit, Finches and Buntings. Rarities: the odd rarity has been seen such as Purple Heron, Spoonbill, Red-throated Pipit, Bluethroat, Marsh Warbler, Rustic and Little Buntings. |
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