Yesterday was a lovely Autumn day - sunny but cold. I headed down to the hide at Quoile Pondage - lapwing, mallard, pochard, teal, pintail, shoveler, mute swan, gadwall, kestrel, magpie, comorant, black-headed & herring gull, rooks. I then headed to the WWT's Castle Espie reserve. After a lovely cup of coffee I headed past the collection into the 'wild' bit of the reserve, and saw pochard, mallard, pintail, gadwall, greylag, goldeneye, mute and whooper swans, moorhen and a solitary female eider. From the hide looking over Strangford Lough, tide was in, I saw an estimated 2000 brent geese and approx 100 wigeon (on the wing).
All is well in my world the geese and wintering ducks and swans are back.
Posted by dawnc at October 18, 2004 10:36 PM