A Heavy Load
The Tuesday session was cancelled because of heavy rain. Hopefully, they will be able to catch up on Tuesday when everyone else is enjoying half-term. The Wednesday and Thursday sessions went to Kilnsea, and confined their observing largely to the triangle area. Ring Ouzel Brent Geese (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart Ditto Brent Geese (c) 2017 Tony Robinson Same birds? different camera, and processing Brent Geese The biggest surprise on Wednesday morning was the heavy kill a Kestrel was carrying. It was only on examining our photographs that we discovered it was a Redwing! Kestrel & Heavy Kill (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart Ditto Ditto Redwing Redwings Redwing (c) 2017 Dick Watson Ditto Another surprise were the two Bearded Tits, which flew north from the Canal Zone. Bearded Tits Ditto Ditto Curlew Curlew and Bar-tailed Godwit silhouettes (c) 2017 Dick Watson Bar-tailed Godwit (c) 2017 Dick Watson Ditto Ditto Redshank (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart Little Egret (c) 2017