A dull grey morning at Bank Island but a chance to see more birds as there is now more water then on my last visit. An American wigeon had been reported over the weekend, but I was unable to visit the area until this morning.
Better light would have helped as I started to scan the several hundred wigeon on the water. They were not staying still , either paddling back and forth or putting their heads in the water to feed. So it was a slow job scanning each group. I had just about got halfway through the group when a couple of jets roared overhead, which put all the birds to flight. I did not think that for one minute that the birds would return to their original places on the water, so I started again.
After about an hour, I presumed that the American wigeon was not there.
Some of the birds came a bit closer, but sadly still no American wigeon. Year tick number 200 still remains elusive.
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