Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Gorple Res 16 June 2009

A walk to Gorple Res last night was very noisy with curlews, oystercatchers and even a tufted duck telling me to go elsewhere.
Curlew - 4
Oystercatcher - 3
Tufted duck - 1 female and 2 males with 3 small ducklings
Canada Goose - 47
Mallard - 1 female with 6 small ducklings
Common Sandpiper - 2
Skylark
Meadow Pipit - 2
Lapwing - 43 over Widdop Gate (took a photo and counted them later!)

1 comment:

David Sutcliffe said...

A very useful way of doing accurate counts Jeff. I have found it very useful for counting Pink-feet as they move over in winter and for reading colour combinations on legs of Twite by zooming up on the digi camera.