7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
Comments: Early start hoping to see geese flocks moving inland from The Wash's mud.
Weather: cold, dank, grey, fitful light rain.
39 species
Pink-footed Goose 500 at least. Flocks taking off & moving inland after roosting on the mud in The Wash. When I reached the far northern end of the reserve many were still on the mud but as the light increased I was treated to large flocks taking off & flying directly overhead & I cursed my lack of a video-camera. Many of the flocks seemed to be going down to one field near to the pumping station so I crept up onto the sea wall & peeked over at a huge flock of at least 500 that were busy feeding (& fertilising). The noise they made was like the buzzing of bees as there were so many of them & the flock was large enough to hold a couple of guest stars...
Greylag Goose X
Canada Goose X
RUDDY SHELDUCK 1 in amongst the flock of pink-feet, holding its own in any squabble over food. The providence is of course debatable but within a wild flock of geese it seems not completely unlikely that it may have been wild. Life-tick.
Common Shelduck X
Gadwall X
Eurasian Wigeon X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X
Green-winged Teal X
Common Pochard X
Tufted Duck X
Red-legged Partridge X
Common Pheasant X
Little Grebe X
Great Cormorant X
Common Moorhen X
Eurasian Coot X
Northern Lapwing X
Grey Plover X
Eurasian Oystercatcher X
Common Redshank X
Eurasian Curlew X
Bar-tailed Godwit X
Red Knot X
Dunlin X
ROSS'S GOOSE 1 in the with the flock of pink-feet (& ruddy shelduck) in the field near to the pumping station. It wasn't too hard to pick out where its diminutive size & lack of a 'smile' allowed for a relatively straightforward id. I later called it in & directed other birders to it & it hung around for a few days. A nice life-tick.
Common Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Eurasian Wren X
European Robin X
Eurasian Blackbird X
Dunnock X
Meadow Pipit X
Reed Bunting X
Common Chaffinch X
European Goldfinch X
Common Linnet X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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