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| Author: | Daniel Newton [ Fri Mar 29, 2013 9:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A Pretty Good Friday |
Started the day with a walk out to Cut End for (just after) high tide. Despite a more-than-brief flurry of snow, it turned out to be quite a nice hour or so. Highlight was a female Hen Harrier hunting over the edge of the saltmarsh as well as 31 Grey Plover, 9 Turnstone, 125+ Oystercatcher and 350+ Dunlin. Then, after a quick change of tyres, onwards to Lincoln and, more precisely, Boultham Mere. My first visit proved to be a lucky one as within a couple of minutes of entering the hide a Bittern flew across the water and landed in the reedbed to the south. The first of two year ticks from my day; the other being a Willow Tit on the feeders:- Bittern x 1 Goosander x 1(m) & 2(f) Willow Tit x 1 Bullfinch x 1(m) & 1(f) Fieldfare x 1 I would have liked to have had a walk around Swanpool woods but I was conscious that I was on a two hour parking limit. Still, it gives me something to look forward to next time! Anyway, after inevitably taking a wrong turn and getting lost coming out of Lincoln, I finally made it back to Frampton Marsh just after four where my day was nicely capped off by a Green Woodpecker feeding slap bang in the middle of the wet grassland alongside the four long-staying White-fronted Geese. |
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