Saturday 6 November 2010

Pigs on the wing(Part 1)

 A classic Woodpig morning with clear blue skies and excellent visability.
Woodpigeons
7.00 - 8.00    3850 s/w
8.00 - 9.00    1375 s/w
9.00 - 9.30      350 s/w
total ...............  5575 all s/w

Pink footed Goose
8.00 - 8.45
130
175
180
  50
 535 all east
Other birds of note apart from a Skua species which eluded id .. I was going with juv dark phase Pom and I see no reason on refering to books that it was'nt this species.but the view was all too brief (drat)??
2 Goosander west
10 Greenfinch west
30+ Chaffinch west
22 Siskin west
50 + Common Gull west
1 Pied wagtail  west
1 Mistle Thrush   north
5 Mallard  west

3 comments:

darrell j prest said...

bad luck with the skua,would have been a great record

AndyC said...

I will be sending in a description to the YNU ,I am pretty happy with what i saw ,I was hopeing someome else may have picked it up...

darrell j prest said...

unfortunately i was still in bed! the last YNU report i saw was the 1988 one,i hope they have got better? well they cant get any worse