Monday 14 November 2016

Whoop Whoop

On the patch this morning, 07:30 start, hardly light and cold, light frost on the grass in the car park at Amble Braid.

Quiet, as we wandered around checking for any birds there might be, some bushes still held berries, Whitebeam, Hawthorn and some Rosehips but it had a sparse wintry feel.


Stewart heard a Brambling shortly before I arrived. Blackbirds, Robin small parties of Goldfinch and, curiously, good numbers of Dunncok, all very noisily peeping away.


We walked around the south edge of the Braid following whats left of The Gut, a Little Egret lifted from the stream and circled. We moved on to let the bird settle back heading towards the Car Park. The tide was low and a couple of Little Grebe were in the Marina.





Druridge Bay Country Park was our next stop. A bit of an odd one this but this is a fabulous area, we were never going to do a visit justice this morning. Tea at the boat launch car park, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Gadwall and Red Breasted Merganser all seen as we supped.








Back to Warkworth to check a group of Whooper Swans in a stubble field near Birling, the birds were still there, 30 or so with Canada Geese. While watching and photographing these birds a flock of waders circled and dropped onto the field, Black Tailed Godwits, 62 of them, what a sight a group like this is in flight with white wing bars and upper tails.







Whooper Swans



Black Tailed Godwit Flock. The sort of morning that seemed quiet but ended really quite nicely.

  

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