Friday, 25 December 2020

A Christmas Goose

Nice surprise in the form of this Greenland White-fronted Goose at the Gann this morning.  As it flew off north it revealed some clear damage to the primaries in the right wing - a lucky escape from a gun, or a close call with a fox perhaps?

A female Pintail was with the Wigeon on the sea, a patch tick for me.  The Grey Plover were up to 7, 2 Knot were new in, as was a lone Ringed Plover.  Amazingly, the sinensis Cormorant had been joined by a second bird, both drying wings out on the island with 5 carbo birds.