Wednesday 17th September: Pochard & Ruff
This morning still calm and still but overcast once more.
Little has changed with the birds: still large numbers of wigeon, accompanied by teal, gadwall and shoveler. The female TUFTED DUCK still present and joined this morning by a male POCHARD. Once more no sign of the golden plover this morning though they may reappear at lunch time again. A MEADOW PIPIT was heard to fly over. A single SNIPE showed itself briefly in the flooded long grass before disappearing again.
Late afternoon update: at about 5:30 a male and a female RUFF were on the floods. They were rather flighty and at 6pm they flew off to the south east. Also a LITTLE EGRET down at the south end of the floods.
Digiscoped record shot of the two ruff, taken from about 200m in poor light. © Adam Hartley
Little has changed with the birds: still large numbers of wigeon, accompanied by teal, gadwall and shoveler. The female TUFTED DUCK still present and joined this morning by a male POCHARD. Once more no sign of the golden plover this morning though they may reappear at lunch time again. A MEADOW PIPIT was heard to fly over. A single SNIPE showed itself briefly in the flooded long grass before disappearing again.
Late afternoon update: at about 5:30 a male and a female RUFF were on the floods. They were rather flighty and at 6pm they flew off to the south east. Also a LITTLE EGRET down at the south end of the floods.
Digiscoped record shot of the two ruff, taken from about 200m in poor light. © Adam Hartley