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Author: | Andrew Chick [ Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:04 pm ] |
Post subject: | New Years Day - Frampton |
Spectacular numbers of wigeon, golden plovers and wildfowl.... Counts just estimates from three hour walk-around Mute Swan 6 Whooper Swan 22 (College Farm, as viewed from cross bank) Pink-footed Goose 300 (one with ORANGE legs.... per JB) Greylag Goose 4 Canada Goose 140 Barnacle Goose 3 Brent Goose c450 Shelduck 5 Wigeon c3000 Gadwall 5 Teal 50 Pintail 25 Shoveler 5 Pochard 28 Tufted Duck 5 Scaup 1 (1st winter male) Goldeneye 1 Pheasant 2 Cormorant 1 Little Egret 6 Grey Heron 1 Little Grebe 2 Moorhen 10 Coot 3 Avocet 1 (resident?) Golden Plover 3000 + Lapwing 700 Ringed Plover 27 Curlew 30 Black-tailed Godwit 5 Ruff 22 Dunlin 4 Spotted Redshank 2 Redshank 5 Black-headed Gull 30 Common Gull 1 Herring Gull 4 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Short-eared Owl 1 (perched up on white post and then hunting over saltmarsh) Kestrel 1 Merlin 2 (at least two birds - very active, showing very well) Peregrine 2 (hunting on the saltmarsh) Magpie 4 Carrion Crow 2 Great Tit 1 Skylark 1 Wren 1 Starling 50 Blackbird 1 Fieldfare 27 Mistle Thrush 2 Robin 1 Meadow Pipit 1 Water Pipit 1 (Marsh Farm reservoir bankside) Chaffinch 2 Greenfinch 1 Linnet 30 Goldfinch 2 Reed Bunting 1 |
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