Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Wet Wigeon Day!

68 Wigeon at Ringstone in the pouring rain this morning between 09:00hrs and 10:00hrs, a huge surprise to see so many on a local water, but they must have been part of a fairly large scale movement across our area as I also saw 86 Wigeon in the Huddersfield Birding Area at other reservoirs later in the day.

All the Wigeon were either resting on the west bank near the hide or sheltering close to the west wall on the water. Just one of the sixty eight in total shown below.



Earlier 2 Mute Swan were notable at Elland Gravel Pits, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Great Crested Grebe and 20 House Martin still around.

2 comments:

AndyC said...

Nice one beats the previous record at this site of 55 on the 15th October 1997,although that day there were also 52 teal,2 red breasted Merganser and 22 Pochard ,Its a great reservoir if you keep a close eye on it....

David Sutcliffe said...

Great count there with the Wigeon Dave.