Sunday Update

Saturday highlights included three Long-tailed Duck at Chev, 150 Fieldfare and GSW in cemetery West of Red Row, 2 White-fronted Geese at Druridge and a GSW in the garden.

Sunday and the birding continued to surprise. A Siskin now mixing with the 14+ Repoll and a GSW at Chev feeders. Slavonian, Great Crested and Little Grebes on the N Pool. 3 Pintail on the S Pool and a Peregrine over the track. Twite at Bell's Dunes. Slavonian Grebe and Scaup, new additions to the Widdrington Moor Lake list. ( I could scope the lake from my front room, just as well I'm not keeping a proper garden list.)

Loving the peace and quiet of winter birding and the lack of birders around the area.

Buzzing

9 Buzzards, 1 Peregrine, 1 Sparrowhawk and 3 Kestrels.

Not bad.

Then Black duck, Black redstart and Black guillemot. Well that was the plan ... ho hum! Actually the first duck at Chev was interesting until it revealed a white bar alongside the blue speculum.

The ringed Redpoll at Chev revealed more letters x677? . Might be one of IRs.

A great weekend after the hard slog of last week.

Brightening Up

A tweet from IR that it was getting brighter and I decided to head for Chev. As I pulled in front of the gate I could hear the Teal noisily displaying. A quick scan soon had the Green-winged Teal in the scope. No doubt the Druridge bird, sorry IR.
You'll notice from the photo it wasn't very bright but a walk to the beach and the cobwebs fully blown away time for home and the Chelsea match.

Stunner

Highlight of the morning was this Bearded tit. Managed 2 grab shots before it disappeared into the reeds. A Th saw the bittern on the S pool today.
East Chevington

Ibis

Whooper swan, Slavonian grebe, Black-tailed Godwit and Pintail were the supporting cast today.
The star was the Glossy Ibis very close to the road at Lynemouth

Hide and Seek

A grey day! It brightened up at the end with the target bird in the bag. Visits to Lynemouth, Cresswell, Druridge and Chev failed to find the Ibis reported yesterday.

A call from A Co at dusk and a quick dash to Lynemouth and the Ibis was there. It must have been tantalisingly close on the three visits I made earlier in the day.

I hope the birder from the Borders eventually caught up with the bird. Earlier she rescued a sheep stuck in the brambles after checking the path to Walkworth Lane.
Apologies for the rubbish photos but it was another good days birding.

Phone Blogging

Just found some of the disadvantages of phone blogging. You can't edit posts easily, so when the phone predicts text and puts in odd punctuation I can't change it without the laptop. My laptop connection ends soon so apologies for future mistakes they will be rectified when I can access a computer.