A late afternoon trip up the coast resulted in little of note for Druridge Bay: no sign of the smew pair at QEII, but success at Druridge Bay Country Park ~ the pair were picked up quite easily from the water sport car park. Photographically too distant, so it's a record shot of the smart drake...
West Hartford was showing signs of sprint - 11 oystercatcher, 3 curlew and two pairs of shelduck.
There could be sand martin by the month end!
Stunner! wish they'd flown south rather than north :-(
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started working at DBCP smew were there most winters....
Nice one, I see Smew quite a lot but they are so damn skittish......
ReplyDeleteYes Ipin, Hadston as it was then referred to used to get numbers of smew - into the double figures in the 80s!
ReplyDeleteStu - don't worry, these are skittish too!
You have a nice blog! I would love to follow up:) Nice light and great picture!
ReplyDeleteKah Wai
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