Just about to set off for work this morning when I spotted a
cracking skein of Whooper Swans. They flew straight over the house. By the time
I’d grabbed the camera and shot out of the front door they were already well
past…
I took some poor pictures but it did mean I could count the
flock. There were 38 birds, probably the largest group I have had in the
parish. They were also the first I have had over the garden. Normally Whoopers
follow the line of the Swale. Someone tweeted me to say they had had a skein of
38 over Whitburn about an hour later. If it was the same birds they would have
been travelling at an average of about 45 miles per hour.
Otherwise it has been a pretty quiet period. Floods at the
weekend raised hopes…
But apart from a dozen Teal and 16 Curlew in the Bottom
Fields they mainly attracted gulls although this included my first Lesser Black-backs
of the year.
A Chiffchaff was singing on Monday and a single Little Egret
was on the river. Unfortunately I flushed it before I realised it was carrying
rings...
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