Hey up folks, it's weekends like this that make you realise just how bad birdin' in the mid's can be sometimes. Then again as you can see from the piccie above if there's only the usual suspects out lookin' for their own birds, is it any wonder!!! This is the best spot to view the main pit at Utch and as usual there is no one there. Anyone readin' this who is lucky enough to live on or near the coast must be laughin' there knackers off!
It's been that bad this weekend that the best i could muster today despite two visits to Utch was 5 Mandarin, but they were along the Dove at Rocester nowhere near the quarry. Even a last minute decision to do the gull roost at Blithers proved pointless as the 2nd winter Iceland Gull from last night decided to roost at Chasewater.
Utch 0830-1000
This mornin's highlights were 3 singin' Skylarks, a singin' male Reed Bunt' and 5 very noisy "pipin'" Oyst's.
Wigeon 113
Goosander 14
Tufty 20
Pochard 3
Teal 3
Oyst' 5
On the way home i clocked a herd of swans feedin' in fields opposite the South lake at Rocester. As expected a quick check of them confirmed that they weren't "wild" but just bog standard Mutes, 22 of 'em. The 5 Mandies that got up off the Dove were a nice surprise though. I love that daft little call of theirs as they take off, it sounds like it should be on a Star Wars film. Over the road on the South Lake were 8 Gazunders.
A quick look in at Poxey again proved fruitless apart from yesterdays Shelduck still bein' on the old lagoon.
Back home it was time for a stroll in the mud with our Alex, Ellie and the hounds. There's no finer pick me after a crap mornin's birdin' than splashin' in the mud with a three year old princess. Priceless!
Utch 1530-1630
Oystercatchers had risen to 8 by this afternoon! A couple of hundred BHG's dropped in again along with 20 LBBG's and 3 Common gulls all of which had been feedin' on a nearby ploughed field. Goosander had reached 54 by around 1615 but even the thought of again breakin' the roost record couldn't stop me from makin' a pointless trip to Blithers.
Roll on spring.
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