Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Pink Feet



A phone call from DJS this dinner time, he told me that a flock of pinkies were on the way over so I grabbed the camera and within a few minutes 3 skiens of over 300 birds flew west. A walk over Mount Tabor half an hour later and I flushed this bird from the ground, it circled 3 times then flew west. I returned 1 hour later and the bird was back in the same field only to flush again when a dog walker approached.


2 comments:

David Sutcliffe said...

I got some photo's of the first and the third flocks as they flew over. The first flock at 12.58 was 165 birds high over the former Shroggs Tip. I couldn't get a count on the second flock as I only saw them through the trees over Lee Mount and the third flock of approx 92 looked to be heading over Lee Mount then turned towards Ovenden/Ogden then veered off west towards Pellon at around 13:10.

David Sutcliffe said...

Just spoken with Nick and the second flock was of around 50 to 60birds.