I've been watching news of the Snow Goose in Lincolnshire which has travelled south with Whooper Swans so has decent credentials for a wild bird. I've seen Snow Geese before but still fancied seeing this one so set off on my own this morning as the Jims had other plans and this was the only day I had for a while where I could set off early. I arrived before the sun came up over Deeping lakes and scanned the Whoopers finding no fewer than three Bewick's Swans amongst them. It would appear the Snow Goose has now found a new roost area as it wasn't present. I walked out to the hide and found two Long-eared Owls roosting in the ivy a few feet from the hide but they were obviously tucked in well. A guy came with a thermal and said there was actually four birds roosting in the tree.
The walk back gave me my first Chiffchaff of the year and I noted a well over a hundred Fieldfare and a few Redwings too. I drove around Crowland checking the Whooper flocks but couldn't find the Goose until I got to Gull farm where I managed to pick it up in a distant herd. On the drive out I found six Red Kites, Two Marsh Harrier and a pair of Raven feeding on what looked like a dead pheasant or goose.
I had nine Cranes fly over head as I drove out through Thorney and broke the journey home with a first time stop at Doddington Pits in Cambs where a couple of locals put me on the drake Ring-necked Duck for another year tick which took the modest list to 111.
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| Snow Goose with the Whoopers |
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