On the drive down the causeway we see our first Great-white Egret of the year in fact we see 3 over the back of the pool.
Straight up onto the beach to see a great sun rise but it's a freezing cold wind,hundreds of Black headed Gulls pass through & many Cormorants but apart from Kittiwake we get no more ticks & with the wind really getting to us we don't spend to long on the beach.
A drive around looking for Black Redstart gets us nothing.
Now it's a lot lighter so we spread out & start to look for the Stonechat, a few other birders are doing the same,after about an hour of looking a birder has found it along the fence by the gravel pit & makes sure we all get on it.
We spend a long time with the bird & hope it will be a tick for us, but when we get home we find out that the DNA of the bird now says it's just a pale Stonechat & that the bird is not a Stejneger's so a lot of time spent for nothing that's part of the hobby I suppose.
We pop round to the pool by the farm to help some birders from Sweden find the Ring-necked Duck & while there pick up a Ruff for a tick.
Off now to Scotney for the Bean Geese, on arrival we find a large flock of Geese & pick up another tick with Barnacle geese seen along with loads of Pink foot & Greylag.
But after an hour or so in really cold conditions we cannot find any Bean Geese despite other people saying they had seen them, maybe it was the ones that never moved & had their heads down the whole time we are looking at them.
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| The very pale Stonechat |
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