Made the exercise effort to get up there this morning after too many days of poor weather. A proper 'welly' job with lots of slushy snow on the melt and the plantation was running with top water off Hunter Hill.
Strange conditions on the reservoir. All the gulls (200+) looked to be standing on the water ! It must have been 90% disguised ice cover which held the overnight rain on top of it with just a small area of open water in the north eastern corner.
No small birds but after a bit of effort, didn't do too bad on the whole.
150+ B H Gulls
60+ Common Gulls
1 adult L B B Gull
12 Herring Gulls (mixed ages)
21, mainly adult, Herring Gulls went over >NE in one group
6 Mallard were the only wildfowl
50+ Starlings
8 House Sparrows
1 Green Woodpecker 'yaffling' from the back of the plantation
1 Woodcock flushed from an area of brambles on the edge of the plantation - when they go they go !!!
This was the best I could do with a mobile phone !
2 comments:
You did well to get out today Dave.
Who is going to post the first decent photo of the elusive Woodcock this year?
Great bird to get.. Reward for trudging through all that gunge up there.
John
Hard to tell which was water and which was ice today Dave. Got to pick up a Med gull there!
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