A dreadful day with a
blazing force 8-9 SE wind making most of the birding a waste of time but there
were lots of birds in the surf at Brides at high tide including a drake Eurasian Wigeon x American Wigeon hybrid (probably the returning one from the
last few year’s) in amongst 110+ Wigeon, 4 Gadwall, 5 Goldeneye and 11
Red-breasted Mergansers. There were
200+ mixed Gulls around there as well with the Kumlien’s Gull again in with an influx of
60 Great Black-backed Gulls and 42 Black-headed Gulls – the first little
arrival of the spring.
Eurasian Wigeon x American Wigeon hybrid
Wigeon
These ducks feeding in the sea had to take off, over the waves as each one came in - a very inefficient way of feeding?
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