The tropical scene as seen from the hide. Birds everywhere..Not a massively impressive day in terms of birds, although one person may disagree with me. Got my first glimpse of a little gull (like most other gulls, but smaller), saw a greenshank and two little ringed plovers, and loads of swifts, swallows and martins flying around our heads the whole time. Most entertaining prize goes to the wren that nearly got blown out of the reeds by the wind, after a brave attempt at some territory defence. Piles of marsh frogs everywhere made up for the general lack of birds wanting to sit out on show today, but still I enjoyed the walk and the cheese scone.
Croaaaaaak! Awesome.
Some sort of pea family, not sure what. Can be found in massive piles along stonechat straight (currently absent of stone/whinchats though)
"Not a massively impressive day in terms of birds, although one person may disagree with me..."
ReplyDeleteDisagree?! Not at all... it was shite.
Well I know you're more of a fan of laridae than me, so not sure how much you'd put on a scruffy looking small gull :)
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly, it was a very bad little gull.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, even as a gull fan that one bird didn't really make up for today. We worked hard, and looked hard, in difficult weather and saw fuck all for our effort...:)
Thing is, the weather should have produced something at least in terms of wader passage. One dunlin does not a passage make.