BELVIDE BIRDING
• Sunday, March 9, 2008 - Belvide Sunny SW 3
| The Barn Owl was hunting the north west shore from 4.50pm there were also 3+ Sand Martin this afternoon.A very poor WeBS count produced the 1st winter drake Scaup, 72 Tufted Duck, 5 Pochard, 31 Mallard, 24 Wigeon, 11 Teal, 48 Gadwall, 1 Shoveler, 90 Goldeneye, 175 Coot and 10 GC Grebe. A single Redshank was a new arrival also at least 4 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew and 7 Snipe. There appeared to be a westerly movement of BH Gulls this morning with at least 3500 between 0930-1130. The gull roost held 2 2nd winter Yellow-legged Gulls. A late item of news for yesterday was the Barn Owl was hunting the north west shore from 5.05pm. |
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