On main spit
Chaffinch enjoying the seeds
Lovely viewing from the car
Meadow Pipit
Last week was an odd one which included a trip into the Alexandra Hospital, thankfully it was just a bad reaction to some new tablets. Birding had to take a back seat for a few days until I felt well enough and I started back with a couple of short walks. With Jon in lockdown I undertook the monthly count to maintain the WEBS records.
The geese numbers were huge again, the Greylags were nudging each other off the island it was so cramped. Working my way through the geese I was looking for a Pink-foot the Squire had seen the day before. Whilst there was no Pink-foot there were 10 Russian White-fronted Geese (all juveniles) happily swimming on the edge of the flock. This was only the second record at the pits with the other being four in October 2016.
The full count was as follows:-
25 Little Grebe, 1 Cormorant, 6 Grey Heron, 10 White-fronted Geese, 2 Goosander ( 1 drake 1 female) 7 Mute Swan, 550 Greylags, 220 Canada Geese, 9 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 9 Pochard, 240 Mallard, 14 Shoveler, 35 Tufted Duck, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 90 Coot,120 Lapwing, 4 LBB Gulls, 2 Herring Gull, 30 Skylark, 120 Meadow Pipit, 200 Fieldfare, 50 Redwing, 30 Linnet, mixed flock of 50-60 finches in sun flower field opposite church inc Goldfinch, Linnet, Chaffinch & several Siskin.
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