"All those lost-named
meadows
Unkempt under summer
plovers
Or pewtered by winter
floods…"
A definite change in the weather this morning with snow
lying on the ridge of Pen Hill and a scattering on the Hambletons. A sharp
northerly wind too and it seemed to have shifted the birds. As I walked down
Warlaby Lane six Wigeon flew over, the 110th species to have been
spotted in the parish this year.
On the floods in the bottom fields there were another 13
Wigeon, 30 Curlew, two Snipe, Cormorant, around 40 Mallard and more surprisingly six
Goldeneye. There have only been two previous sightings of Goldeneye in the
parish and they were both of single birds so this has quadrupled the records!
I later walked over to scan the floodwater at Langlands but
numbers were significantly down with only around 45 Curlew now, a single
Greylag and a couple of hundred Black-headed Gull although the Teal flock was
still present along with yet another (drake) Goldeneye.
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