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
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 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
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 Redwing
 Redwings
Redwing (c) 2017 Dick Watson 
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Another surprise were the two Bearded Tits, which flew north from the Canal Zone.
Bearded Tits
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Curlew 
Curlew and Bar-tailed Godwit silhouettes (c) 2017 Dick Watson
Bar-tailed Godwit (c) 2017 Dick Watson 
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 Redshank (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
Little Egret (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Grey Plover
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Grey Plover (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Grey Plover (c) 2017 Tony Robinson
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 Golden Plover
 Golden Plover (c) 2017 Tony Robinson
 Waders against the Lighthouse
 Turnstone
 Turnstone (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Ring Ouzel and Redwing
 Ring Ouzel
 Ring Ouzel and Blackbird
 Ring Ouzel
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 Ringed Plover
 Roe Deer
 Roe Deer (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Siskin
 Starling
There was no Kestrel carrying a Redwing on Thursday, or   Bearded Tits, but the star bird in the morning was a long-eared Owl.  It was a lifer for some.
Long-eared Owl
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 Whooper Swans
 Grey Seal
 Grey Seal (c) 2017 Dick Watson
 White Bryony
On Friday we had our first autumn visit to the wolds.  It was amazingly bright for a change with hardly any wind.  It was very chilly at the start, but by lunch time it felt almost tropical for late October.
Grey Wagtail
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Grey Wagtail (c) 2017 Jane Robinson
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Come in No.7 your time its up
 Red Kite
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 Number 7 on the move
 Red Kite (c) 2017 Jane Robinson
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Long-tailed Tit
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 Calling
 Long-tailed Tit (c) 2017 Jane Robinson
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Nuthatch
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 Hornet
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Peahen
 Peahen (c) 2017 Jane Robinson

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