Yesterday, Monday the 22nd of December was the first day of my summer, and as it was not a foggy day, I decided to try to add to my ear list. I had read on various social media reports of sightings of hen harriers and short-eared owls along the Humber, so headed for Welwick.
I settled in the small hide and scanned the surrounding area. I was looking towards the sun so not very good for photos.
A small group of black-tailed godwits were feeding in the lagoon along with several wigeon. In the fields behind me was a flock of brent geese.
Lots of chaffinches on the fence post, mostly male, often called batchelor birds due to the males forming large flocks in winter. David Armitage walked up at this point and we chatted for a while. He then set off to walk to the next hide. After a while he returned and told me that he had been talking to someone who had been watching harriers etc earlier that morning near Patrington Haven. So off we drove.
We parked in an area I last visited to see an Ivory gull.
I viewed the area from the hide while David set off to explore the area towards the pumping station.
Lots of curlews
A kestrel was hunting
Half an hour passed by and David had not retuned, so I set off to walk towrds him. After about a 20 minute walk I came across him and other birders watching birds in a field. Lots of grey herons, little and great white egrets and a male hen harrier. The bird was some distance away as it hunted over the field.
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