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1 white Snow Goose and a Greenland White-fronted Goose were spotted from the visitor centre on Monday and a female Stonechat was seen by the path to Tower Pool hide a bit later on. Fen hide proved a good bet also with 3 Water Rail and 2 Scaup seen in the afternoon.
The Snow Goose was seen again on Tuesday and has been one of the regulars over the past couple of weeks. Tuesday also saw a Little Egret spotted at the back of the low ground which has been seen most days since from either Tower Pool hide or the visitor centre. Our resident American Wigeon was also seen from Fen Hide so there's still a chance to catch a look. 2 Redshank were seen from the visitor centre too.
(Above) A Little Egret. Picture by Sam Alexander.
Wednesday kicked off with an early morning duck count and produced a few figures that stood out from the previous week; 985 Wigeon, 3 Scaup, 2 Water Rail and a Slavonian Grebe, the latter seen on the North side of the Loch. The magic continued into the afternoon with Bearded Tits seen from Fen hide and a Jack Snipe flushed from Mosstown Marsh. 1, presumably confused, Swallow was also noted from Fen hide.
The week closed today with the Little Egret seen at 8 am from the visitor centre along with a handful for Mallard, 1 Snipe on Mosstown Marsh and we passed a Stonechat by the path on the way round to the airfield hides.
Just a brief one, thanks for reading.
Iain