A nice, calm day at Spurn
with a Barn Owl and a female Sparrowhawk around Church Field first thing where
I managed to catch 2 Chaffinches, 2 Tree Sparrows, a Blackbird and a Dunnock
before a walk round the Triangle produced 3 Pink-footed Geese, 2 Black-tailed
Godwits and a Merlin.
There were 2 adult Whooper Swans along Easington
Strait before a look on Kilnsea Wetlands during high tide produced plenty of
birds including 3 Avocets, 63 Lapwings, a Greenshank, 150+ Dunlin, 200+
Redshank, 250+ Curlew, 250 Wigeon, 60 Teal and single Bar-tailed Godwit, Grey
Plover and Golden Plover.
This scruffy female Sparrowhawk was originally caught and ringed here at Spurn in November last year and her tail had broken off halfway due to a very strong fault bar running across it (indicating a spell when she was a chick in the nest that she wasn't fed properly and the tail feather growth was halted)
Dark-bellied Brent Geese
Pink-footed Geese
and a couple of locally colour ringed Redshank from The Humber
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