One my way home (sort of) from Martin Mere, I stopped off for what was
meant to be a quick visit to Lunt Meadows, in order to see a green-winged teal
which has been around for a week or two. In the end there was so much
happening that I stayed a couple of hours until dusk.
As well as the green-winged teal, this Richardson's cackling goose was with
the Canada goose flock. It arrived about 10 days ago, but whether it was carried
here by the local pink-feet and then joined up with the Canada's or just
escaped from a local collection we'll never know. It occurred to me that it
might be the same bird that was with greylags and then Canada's at Lightshaw
flash and then briefly Pennington Flash a couple of years ago. I'll see if I
can match it to that bird when I get chance, but certainly it doesn't appear
to be the
bird which was at Marshside
in January 2022 and which was accepted as wild by BBRC. For one thing, the
white face patch is a very different shape.
Smart bird!
As dusk approached, several marsh harriers came in to roost and they were
joined by this wonderful male hen harrier. There was also a barn owl hunting.
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