Bird News from Tim Edelsten and Matt Poll<\/b><\/p>\n
\nVery overcast, dull, and largely frozen. Of most interest among 44 species were large numbers of waterfowl, including conservative counts of 1300 Goldeneye<\/strong>, 1100+ Greater Scaup<\/strong>, 1030 Mallard<\/strong>, 950 Common Pochard<\/strong>, 820 Spot-billed Duck<\/strong>, and 300+ Tufted Duck<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \nBirds of the shallower water were however in very small numbers however, presumably due to the many fishermen that have recently begun to use this area- for example only 2 Pintail<\/strong>, 20 Falcated Duck<\/strong>, c.10 Teal<\/strong>. <\/p>\n \nSome 300+ Bean<\/strong> and Greater White-fronted Geese<\/strong> were likewise regularly put to flight by disturbance from microlights, hang-gliders and kite-flyers.<\/p>\n \nOther enjoyable sights today were e.g. 3 White-tailed Eagle<\/strong>, an Upland Buzzard<\/strong>, 13 Whooper Swan<\/strong>, a Hen Harrier<\/strong>, a Northern Goshawk<\/strong>, 31 Coot<\/strong>, a handful of Common<\/strong> & Pallas’s Reed Bunting<\/strong>, and most encouragingly a flock of 52 (predominantly Naummann’s<\/strong>) and Dusky Thrushes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …enjoyable sights today were e.g. 3 White-tailed Eagle<\/strong>, an Upland Buzzard<\/strong>, 13 Whooper Swan<\/strong>, a handful of Common<\/strong> & Pallas’s Reed Bunting<\/strong>, and a flock of 52 (predominantly Naummann’s<\/strong>) Dusky Thrushes<\/strong>…. read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[848],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-shiwha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}