Goosey Goosey Gander

4th December - the lake is still high, though the flood meadows are now mostly meadow.

A morning visit found many hundreds of BHG milling about and still plenty of dabblers, though the drake Pintail of the previous 3 days had moved on.  A Peregrine flew through and put everything up before departing to the west and I then noticed a female type Goosander in the NW arm, which on closer inspection appeared to be a bird of the year, with a pale line along the lores.  It seemed to favour this area, though did move around the lake at times and even hauled itself out on a bit of spit a couple of times.  My second of the year following a bird back in January.

Eyeing up something

The drake Shelduck remained, as did large numbers of Snipe and the regular Green Sand.

On the gull front, I dug out a 1st winter Med Gull from the throng of BHG before they were all put up and it duly disappeared.