It is only an hour away from home which is good as we want to get back for the football at lunch time, when we arrive the causeway by the visitor centre there is not a single birder about, funny that as the pager has told us that the target bird had been seen this morning on this causeway only a little time ago.
So off we go round to the other causeway just in case we had it wrong.
On arrival it looks like it might be better as there are a good few scopes scanning the water,on asking if the bird had been seen we are told no & in fact we had been right to look round where we had come from, so we drive back round & now people are here looking, we meet the fellow who posted it on the pager & he tells us that it had been seen with about six Pochard but they had moved off but if we find the Pochard it will more than likely it will be with them.
We are told to try up the road called school road as we can get a better view of that end of the lake, still no luck, so back down the road to scan there again, nearly ready to give up when a fellow that we spoken to round the over side tells us he has just heard from a mate that the bird had just been seen at Hide Bay, it meant going into the visitor centre to walk about five minutes to view the water, we see a few people already here & on asking if it has been seen we get the answer we wanted to hear & we are soon looking at another year tick for both of us.
We spend about an hour in the company of this bird with great views in the scope but to far away for any good photos. Our first Common Tern & Swallow are spotted while here.
On the way back to the car we meet up with John a fellow we get to see at many twitches all over the place, always nice to meet up with him to have a catch up.
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| Just a photo of where the Duck was seen. |
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