An excellent few hours at Pennington Flash this morning cumulating in the
discovery of a 1st winter stonechat on the ruck. It might not seem much, but
this was my first stonechat at the flash since 29th November 1981! What a beauty it was. I love this photo, the rose hips really set off the orange breast of the bird and what a contrast with the green leaves.
While I was watching it a great white egret flew in high from the north and
landed on the side of the ruck. Again nothing too unexpected about that you
might think, yet I'd just been watching two in view at the same time, one on
the south side, the other at the western end reedbed. Although I could no
longer see these birds, it seems very likely that this latest sighting was a
third bird. Quite amazing if it was!
Other birds included the common sandpiper still at the sailing club, two
swallows at the western end, 28 shoveler, two little egrets and two willow
tits.
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