SPURN - 1st January

Saw in the new year at Spurn and in the morning I walked round the Triangle then over to Beacon Ponds and Kilnsea Wetlands; it was bang on high tide so there wasn’t much to see on the Humber with 9 Stock Doves and 6 Reed Buntings along the Canal and three Red-throated Divers offshore before a decent number of wildfowl on the Wetlands and Ponds including the two Scaup from last year (first-winter drake and first-winter female), a drake Pochard which circled several times but didn’t land, 700+ Wigeon, 200+ Teal, 4 Gadwall and 32 Shoveler.   

In the afternoon I walked along the Humber to just beyond Sammie’s Point and back along Peter Lane; the highlight was some good Goose flocks in fields to the west of Sammie’s which held two Tundra Bean Geese, two White-fronted Geese, c60 Pink-footed Geese and a huge flock of 500+ Brent Geese a bit further along.   Other birds seen included 14 Whooper Swans along Easington Straight, a Woodcock at Grange Farm, a couple of Sparrowhawks, three Little Egrets, a Buzzard and a few Yellowhammers.

Brent Geese

Wigeon