Showing posts with label geese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geese. Show all posts

Friday, 17 May 2019

In the pink

Another good find by Paul Davy on Thursday night was a Pink-footed Goose on the Mid Brooks, which was thankfully still around and showing well from West Mead hide this morning - the first site record since 2017.

Quite where this bird has come from will probably forever remain a mystery but it's unringed and wary and seems likely it's the same bird that's been at Titchfield Haven in Hampshire* recently and perhaps even the same one that was at Stoke Water Meadows in Surrey back in February.
Otherwise it was another fairly quiet day with just 5 Black-tailed Godwits and 4 Whimbrel reported by Paul at Hail's View.

* Since I wrote this I've seen that a Pink-foot was also at Lower Test Marshes late morning today, so perhaps a different bird after all.