Long-tailed Ducks, despite ample opportunity to get good images this A.M. I failed miserably
08.00-10.00 from the fishing boats with MH, DW & PT
Up Channel Down ChannelBrent Goose: 55 341
Shelduck: 28
Mallard: 3 12
Gadwall: 8
Pintail: 1
Shoveler: 3
Wigeon: 44 +7 in 127
Teal: 22 + 4 in 136
Common Scoter: 3 23
Long-tailed Duck: 2
Goldeneye: 1 7
R.B.Merganser: 5
Red-throated Diver: 2 + 1 on 3
Great-crested Grebe: 7 on 3
Gannet: c25 around
Cormorant: Many present
Little Egret: 3 in
Oystercatcher: 1
Golden Plover: 19 in
Turnstone: 3 on beach
Dunlin: 12
Great Skua: 1
Black-headed Gull: Many present
Common Gull: present
Mediterranean Gull: c5 around
Herring Gull: Many present
Great Black Backed Gull: Present
Lesser Black Backed Gull: A few present
Little Gull: 1 Juvenile
Kittiwake: 7 5
Guillemot: 8 6 on
Razorbill: 4 3 on
Auk sp: 12 18
Skylark: 1 in
Starling: 5,240 in
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2
A short visit to the reserve for warm up with some hot chocolate saw the usual Egrets, also a couple of Spoonbills and 2 Bewick Swans which flew north over Firth Hide the first of this winter.
Spoonbills from firth
Bewick Swans over Firth
Spoonbill from Firth
The Stonechat
I spent most of the day around the Kerton Road Triangle trying to obtain good shots of The Stonechat, it was loosely associating with a couple of Common Stonechats, also at least 3 Dartford Warblers there
The Ring-necked Ducked discovered at Boulderwall by MH late afternoon.
It was all waiting for me to go home!
ReplyDeleteThe Spoonbills were just rubbing it in!!!!!
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