Sunday 23 October 2011

Saturday at the Bay

Went to the bay yesterday morning arrived about 7.30 and saw a good mix of birds.
Starting out along the foreshore there were the usual gulls,shelducks,teal & cormorants
with a Redshank, 1 Curlew and a Black tailed Godwit also 3 Jackdaws flying over.

Going onto the scrub i walked along the middle ditch first seeing a large 100+ mixed flock of linnets ,goldfinchs,greenfinchs and chaffinches.  a pair of Great tits on the wire fencing.

                                    
Also there was a Reed warbler several Reed buntings a Pair of Green woodpeckers, Blackbirds, Robins, Starlings, 4 Blue tits crows, magpies 1 kestrel and  more skylarks.
                                    
By now there were quite a few dog walkers marching about, another falconer with a Harris hawk
 ( or they called hawkers) and a brownie troupe stamping about so i decided to call it a day. Walking back along the foreshore there was a single black tailed godwit  to finish the day.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Greg, i had about 20 odd Black Tailed Godwit in Aveley Bay Sunday morning and they headed up river towards Barking - Lee

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  2. hi lee only just seen your comment i had 50+ on weds 26th and the friday and then nothing on the saturday
    greg

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