bittern and bearded tit - finally!!

[simon taylor]

Originally Posted by ChrisJB

You'll have a beefer Simon, the Silverdale area is a delight, as is Riggindale, where the lonely eagle lives.

Regards, Chris

Hopefully it wont be lonely too much longer. It'll be a sad day if it passes away without a mate as that'll effectivley make them extinct in England

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by simon taylor

It'll be a sad day if it passes away without a mate as that'll effectivley make them extinct in England

It'll please the landowners and their gamekeepers. One they can tick off their list - hen harriers next!

Jim

[rossy]

well done sprout just read what you saw at leighton moss ill be back for the illusive bittern glad you achieved your goal. only just captaincarrot the best time for the beardies is 8 30 till 10 30 am if you go again . rossy

[captaincarot]

Originally Posted by rossy

well done sprout just read what you saw at leighton moss ill be back for the illusive bittern glad you achieved your goal. only just captaincarrot the best time for the beardies is 8 30 till 10 30 am if you go again . rossy

we got there at quarter past 9 and hung around till nigh on 10 but a bloke turned up and said they had been showing down by the hide so we shot over there asap. funnily enough they had heard we were coming on the grapevine and scarpered sharpish. to put sprouts sightings into context, we've been to leighton moss 3 times this year and stayed all day, we've seen neither bearded tits or bittern at all in any of the 3 visits, so to see both is a right result.
though on our single visit to blacktoft sands we did see the bearded tits
as for the snow geese, i came to the conclusion i was definitely looking at one, precisely because it wasn't all white but it did have a bright white head. it had some of the blue colour in it's body feathers. there were possibly another 4 but they were partially concealed from us by vegetation so those 4 white blobs won't be counted.