Saturday 24 September 2022

Friday 23rd September

An hour in the North Hide this afternoon produced a few interesting sights. Thee was a huge gathering of Greylag Geese that I started to count. Shortly after reaching 800, with more to go, an immature White-tailed Eagle flew in and put the whole lot up. After that, about 50 Greylags walked very cautiously back down the tideline on a rising tide towards the eagle sat on the water's edge. They got to within about 4-5 metres of it at which point the eagle was getting its feet wet, flew off and scared the whole Greylag flock again.

Apart from that there were 3 Black-tailed Godwits on the floods along with 58 Teal and a Carrion Crow. On the opposite side of the loch there was a flock of 180 Lapwings plus 2 Hen Harriers cruising by. Coming in from the north and  mostly passing straight through was a total of 70 Brent Geese - a single Whimbrel accompanying one of the larger flocks.

Elsewhere, David Wood reports a single Whimbrel on The Oa this morning.

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