Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Penduline Tit...

Lade - 0900hrs - Cool, sunny, SW1 - At long last the wind has veered round after a fortnight of biting easterlies. The sun had some strength and encouraged 2 Marsh Harriers and a Sparrowhawk into the thermals. Twelve head-shaking Goldeneyes on south pit.
Hookers - 1400hrs - Spent a couple of hours looking for the reported Penduline (seen earlier from the ramp) without success. Several Beardies `pinging` and a Peregrine over was about it. Elsewhere around the reserve there was Rock Pipit, Slavonian Grebe, Merlin, Red-throated Diver, Bittern and Smew. Yesterdays Scaup appear to have moved on.

                                          Hookers reedbed, somewhere there`s a Penduline...

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