Sunday 3 February 2013

Swanning around

I headed to Collingham Pits this morning with a target list of ten species which I really should've seen by now, including species like Red-legged Partridge, Peregrine and Mistle Thrush. I left the site after a couple of hours without having seen any of them, but did get a nice bonus in the form of a lone Whooper Swan among 46 Mute Swans in the field west of Ferry Lane Lake. 



A distant Whooper Swan at Collingham Pits

There were plenty of Teal and Wigeon around, with 4 Pintail on Mons Pool. The only waders were 14 Redshank on the Silt Lagoon. I finished the morning with a quick look at Besthorpe Warren, which produced a calling (but invisible) Brambling, and finally one of my ten target species - a Treecreeper

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