Local Patch & Beyond 2024.

Nebraska Wetlands:  12.30 - 15.40  sunny and windy.

Mallard - 6
Wigeon - 11
Tufted Duck - 12
Gadwall - 6
Black-headed Gull - 20
Common Gull - 8
LBB Gull - 2
Herring Gull - 2 (new tick on patch) pics
Little Egret - 3
Shelduck - 5
Pochard - 4
Shoveler - 15
Canada Geese - 2
Little Grebe - 1
Oystercatcher - 2 were mobbed by Crow.
Kestrel - 1
Chaffinch - 3
Magpie - 4
Coot - 6
Teal - 12
Mute Swan - 2
Great-crested Grebe - 2
Grey lag - 2
Buzzard - 2
Jackdaw - 1
Grey Heron - 1
Pheasant - 2
Wood Pigeon - 27
Crow - 2
Moorhen - 2
Reed Bunting - 1m
Goldfinch - 1

Not bad for an old guy lol.

Cheers

John

No I haven't looked on here for a while so have only just seen your post. You can console yourself that people will have seen this post already
 

Burringham: 13.30 - 14.10 

Buzzard - 1
Lapwing - 4
Magpie - 12
LBB Gull - 3
Skylark - 1
Mallard - 2

Black Bank:  14.30 - 16.15

GSW - 2 (one was drumming while other was eating) at FS  pics
Pied Wagtail - 1
Mute Swan - 44
Reed Bunting - 7  (5m 2f) at FS
Greenfinch - 1f  (first time one of either sex seen at FS) pics
Great/Blue/ LT Tits  at FS
Pheasant - 1 at FS
Dunnock - 1 at FS
Robin - 2 at FS
Wood Pigeon - 2 at FS
Goldfinch - 2 at FS
Greylag - 32

Enjoyable but very tiring.

John

On way home from field event in South Yorkshire we spotted the following:

Pilfrey Bridge

Mute Swan - 4
Whoopers Swan - 10 
Greylag - 5

Burringham - 2 Little Egret

Cheers John & K.

Burringham: 15.00 - 16.15 

Mallard - 7
Common Gull - 30
Greylags - 24
Kestrel - 3
Fieldfare - c200
Starling - c100
Wood Pigeon - 18
Pheasant - 2
Buzzard - 2 including almost white one again.
Black-head Gull - 36 
Roe Deer - 3
Stock Dove - 1
Rook - 50
Little Egret - 1

Enjoyable.

John

My Ring-tailed Duck sighting wasn't worthy of a mention yesterday on CG page, but others that saw it on other days were, why?