Sunday 19 February 2017

19th February

At last! I was sure I was going to miss out on Waxwings in the parish despite birds appearing all around (including seeing three separate flocks at work) but as I was driving back from picking up my mother-in-law this morning I spotted a couple in a tree in Morton. I drove home, grabbed my camera and shot back. Unfortunately the light was not brilliant but that didn’t take away from seeing a flock of at least 80 birds.
It may have been more as this group was in one of the trees and represented only about half the birds…


Talking to local residents they estimated there were over 200 here on Thursday.


This one unfortunately isn’t sharp but it’s still a nice image…





Yesterday a walk along Greenhills Lane turned up a flock of 147 Greylags, two Oystercatchers  and my first Shelduck of the year.


Another three Shelduck were with 20 Curlew in the Bottom Fields and two more were on the wader pools. They had all gone by today.

5 comments:

  1. Glad you managed to get the Waxwings, it's been such a good year for them!

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    1. It has Pam so very relieved to catch up with them on the patch

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  2. I still haven't got my waxwings. I wasn't at work when you txtd they were there. ... drat!

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    1. Apparently some there this morning according to Rare bird Alert

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  3. I still haven't got my waxwings. I wasn't at work when you txtd they were there. ... drat!

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