A bit of a marathon on Conder Pool, in the creeks, a circuit around Conder Green, around the Lune Estuary, and a run down the A588.
On Conder Pool, a Spotter Redshank obliged albeit asleep with 9 Greenshank in the not the best video I ever saw, 9 Little Grebe were my best count, 12 Wigeon and up to 150 Teal were also noted.
Three Ruff were in the creeks, also just one Avocet was seen in two visits, another day closer to wintering here.
On the Lune Estuary at Glasson, c.350 Bar-tailed Godwit were of note, with up to 2,750 Lapwing, 14 Snipe, and a drake Goosander. On Jeremy Lane, 550 Black-tailed Godwit and 320 Curlew on a flood. Along Moss Lane, 7 Little Egret were in a small field on the west side of Gardner's Farm. A visit to Cockersand served the purpose well when I found a female Stonechat in the rough field behind Lower Bank House.
As I drove down the A588 up to 2,000 Pink-footed Geese were in the air, eventually out of view and gone down in the Cockerham Moss area. At Braides, 3 Curlew Sandpiper were in the field, with at least 1,500 Golden Plover in the same field split in half by a grit track to Cockerham Marsh.
I decided to continue to Fluke Hall to be rewarded by another female Stonechat and 30 Whooper Swan to the south of the car Park.
Thanks to Ian Mitchell for the excellent header image of the Spotted Redshank/Greenshank on Conder Pool, and the Ruff in the creeks.
Blot On The Landscape.
The perfect example of 'some' photographers getting the rest a bad press. So what's wrong with the sluice as a perch for the Kingfisher, instead of the plank with a nail in the end, and weighed down with a ridiculous huge stone. Both these props will have been removed by the weekend....Guaranteed.
Glad you found a couple of Stonechats on the patch.
ReplyDeleteThanks for tweaking the Ruff picture it doesn't look too bad now considering the light.
I am sure the Kingfisher is quite capable of diving off the sluice without the aid of the springboard which someone has so kindly provided for it. Goodness only knows where the nail would end up. It all looks hideous now doesn't it.
Glad the Whoopers are about.
Thanks for the blog.
From the numbers that you are giving here, Pete, if the house was any more full, it would be bursting at the seams!
ReplyDeleteI was astounded at the level of zoom you achieved with that video of the Lune Estuary. Impressive!
I struggle to understand the mentality of anyone who thinks that a photo of a Kingfisher on a plank with a nail would be in any way superior to one of it perched on the sluice - not to mention the danger to bird and other life-forms of a plank with a nail in the environment.
A most enjoyable post. Best wishes to you and KT - - - Richard
Thanks for comments Ian/Richard, in particular addressing the appalling Kingfisher 'perches'.
ReplyDeleteRegards to both....Pete.