Tuesday 7 January
A sunny but windy and very cold morning so a visit to nearby Weston Shore on the east at the top of Southampton Water immediately before encountering the docks. As expected, lots of Carrion Crows foraging on the beach plus very many gulls, mainly Black-headed but also a good number of Herring plus also both Great Black-backed and Common Gull. On the water itself a handful of Brent Geese.
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| Brent Geese Branta bernicla with an Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus |
A few Cormorants and a quintet of Mute Swans and near the water's edge, low tide rapidly approaching, a few Turnstone, many Oystercatchers and a quartet of Curlew. Even a Little Egret popped over from the small, reed-fringed pond on the other side of the road.
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| Curlew Numenius aquata |
Returning home via Netley I picked up Moorhen, more Mute Swans and Woodpigions at Sophie's Pond and a Blackbird nearby.
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| Little Egret Egretta garzetta |
Birds seen:
Brent Goose, Mute Swan, Mallard, Cormorant, Little Egret, Moorhen, Oystercatcher, Curlew, Turnstone, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Woodpigeon, Blackbird, Carrion Crow.
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| Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus |
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| Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo |
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