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| Oystercatcher and Black Tailed Godwit |
Yet another rewarding trip to the patch! A scan out along the shingle spit on the Broad and immediately was drawn to 3 bright orange beaks...yep you've guessed it, there were 3x
Oystercatchers enjoying the gorgeous sunshine.While enjoying these charismatic birds i noticed a sleeping Wader. A rather smart
Black Tailed Godwit.I watched it wake and then make its way along the shingle .A rather graceful Wader and a first for me on the patch. After a while i turned my attention to water and after a
Tufted count of 75 i spotted a male
Goldeneye.Again a smart looking bird and with the sun looking rather striking.
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| Black Tailed Godwit |
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| Goldeneye |
A further hunt for any thing else of interest resulted in:
2x
Pochard ,2x
Gadwall , 3x
Common Snipe , before everything took to the air and as it did i counted 11x
Lapwings & then a flock of 12x
Dunlin.They dropped down at the Marshes so i made my way there.Although when i got there the marsh was bare other then a few
Stock Doves but i did meet a fellow birder of name Kaine.We got gassin as you do and he too had seen the Dunlin flock take off and as we spoke a single
Dunlin flew by and dropped onto the broad.I left to the sound of a singing
Cettis (in fact a total of 3 today)Once again it shows that regular visits to a patch although sometimes can be rather empty with bird life, other times can be fantastic and of late its been more of the latter- Long may it continue!
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| Taking to the air: Stock Doves, Lapwings and gulls. Oystercatchers take there chances |
Happy Birding,
Shaky
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