Another One!

We've been enjoying quite a run of funky birds - especially ducks - just recently, and it continued with the first Devon Green-winged Teal for too long.

Needless to say, it wasn't exactly ideally located, hiding behind a sea of 'mud' on Powderham Marsh. But this is what wellies are for, and longer days are what twitching stuff from work is for.

:)


Ok, hit it;

Male Green-winged Teal

Yeah, reallly close....

Still better than the scoters...

Powderham Marsh

See that bit top far left with the right-pointing right angle? Yeah, that far.

Snow Goose

Showing how it's done.

Drake Scaup

After all that grief, now they're everywhere..

Speaking of grief;

Spot the Green Sandpiper!

At frickin' last...

Sand Martins!

About 50 when I arrived, later a bins count [as opposed to using the scope to hunt for non-existent House Martins etc] gave 130+!



There were - to my surprise, with the time and mud - three of us on site for a while. Being outdoors with the wind blowing across not along the line, we were fine even without the separation that just somehow came about [there's been 'don't twitch stuff cos of the plague' BS flying around, FFS...]

Ah, the joys of the bird behaving. Even if getting all that mud off [I swear it has anti-gravitic properties], was a pain.



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