Bean Geese and a fine Red-necked Grebe!

 Slavonian Grebe New Diggings

With the builders starting work at home today my time was limited to a quick run around the Peninsular. On the ARC 3 Goosander at the south end from the causeway, on the opposite side of the road a Slavonian Grebe was  showing nicely. On the reserve the Ring-necked Duck was still on Cook's Pool. The Long-eared Owl was missing today, just a single Smew on Burrowes of note.

A short watch from the garden late morning saw Great White Egret, Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, Golden Plovers and Lapwings. As I was in the garden RH,BE and KH pulled up and showed me back of the camera images of 5 Bean Geese taken at Pett Level, although distant and heavily cropped they looked good for Taiga Bean Geese. 

A call to MH ended with us going to Pett where we saw the 5 Bean Geese distantly which looked good for Taiga's long necked, long billed, but they were just too distant to clinch the ID for certain. However all the Geese were flushed landing closer to us, while searching through the Greylags and Canada's we came came across a party of 4 Tundra Bean Geese, as we were cold and thinking we had made a mistake we left for home. As we approached Camber we spotted a Red-necked Grebe on the small lake immediately west of the village. I called Paul James who arrived shortly, chatting about the Bean Geese he had seen the 5 Taiga's where we had. Hopefully all 9 Bean Geese will be present tomorrow.

 Red-necked Grebe, Camber.