Taiga Bean Goose
Another mega days birding on the reserve. A Taiga Bean Goose was located with Pink-footed Geese early afternoon bringing our year list onto 152 species, a new record (see report of 22nd Nov). An [...]
Another mega days birding on the reserve. A Taiga Bean Goose was located with Pink-footed Geese early afternoon bringing our year list onto 152 species, a new record (see report of 22nd Nov). Another record was broken with 32 European White-fronted Geese (21 adult and 11 juveniles), again with 2000+ Pink-footed Geese this morning.
Other wildfowl counts included 2,900 Common Teal, 890 Common Shelduck, 650+ Eurasian Wigeon, 300+ Pintail, 161 Tufted Duck, 76 Pochard, 1000+ Whooper Swan, 300+ Greylag and 83 Barnacle Geese.
Raptors included 4 Marsh Harrier, Merlin, 2 Peregrine, 3 Kestrel, 2 Common Buzzard and Sparrowhawk. Short-eared Owl hunting late afternoon.
Chiffchaff along the Nature Trail.
