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BRIAN SUMNER.
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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Saturday, September 23, 2023

Here come the Pinks, Fly Flatts. Autumn Equinox.

 

                                    Single Wheatear

                                    Fog slowly clearing.
                                    Mist over the water.
                                    Pink Footed Geese >E
                                            4 Skeins
                                        






And yet again a foggy start to the morning at Fly Flatts but clearing by 0845 hrs leaving some heavy fog banks along the west horizon. A light WSW>2 at 10 degrees and 60 % cloud.
        Pink Footed geese were on the move from the start with 4 skeins over, 2 to the north of me and 2 to my south with a total of 184 geese. Meadow Pipits were moving >S continuously throughout the watch but otherwise very little other than LBB gulls >NE and 2 Peregrine over the moor.
A single Wheatear was down the entrance track among several blogging Mipits.

184 Pink Footed Geese........>S  and >SE. 4 skeins,   27, 55, 49, 53.
Several Mipits.....................>S and blogging
12 LBB gull........................>NE  plus 2 on the west bank
1 Wheatear
2 Peregrine
6 Canadas
5 Red Grouse
BS