Popped into the Sands Lake this evening just as the light was going to have a look at the gulls - just the usual, a few Common Gulls in with the Black Headed and Herring Gulls.
About 40 Tufties on the south side of the lake, Cormorants, Coots, Mute Swans, Moorhens etc.
Earlier I'd driven over Plex Moss, where flocks of Starlings, Woodpigeons and corvids are in the stubble.
A few skeins of Pink Feet up in the air, but a larger flock was feeding out of sight between Plex and Carr Moss Lanes, so out of sight, apart from a few small groups that broke off from the main herd.
Stonechat, Buzzard, Kestrel, Red Legged Partidge and about 70 Swallows and House Martins feeding at the west end of Plex.
A bit of a quiet afternoon, apart from the sword fight I had with my five year old godson Spud - he has a fine career as a pirate ahead of him.
Yarrrr.....
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies....
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10 Buzzards soaring together high above Downholland this afternoon.
I think this is called a 'kettle' - is this correct?
Never seen as many as 10 together before in West Lancs.
Still seems to be loads of Swallows on the move.
Yup Derek, "kettle" is indeed the word to describe a group of thermalling raptors, yankee in origin I think - ah, happy memories of the hawk platform at Cape May...the Cooper's Hawks will be zipping thro' there now, with Northern Harriers, Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures and everything else streaming down the eastern seaboard.
Birding heaven.