... a ringed bird, perhaps one of the birds ringed recently at Stagsike, Geltsdale ...
Some of the birds at Talkin Tarn when I did my WeBS visit this week were a little more confiding than usual ... maybe the absence of dogs jumping in the water was a help ...
... male Goosander is always a delight to see ...
... and four Little Grebes were a record count for the site ...
... the overnight snow was keeping the road to Clesketts on the way to Geltsdale quiet - still no vehicle tracks by 09.00 and few footprints ...
... a female Goosander flew in, in front of the screen ...
... and more distantly a female Pochard was the only one of its species in view ... normally outnumbered by males at this site ...
... and the tarn looked attractive looking from the screen, across the reedbed to the Rigg ...
... as I walked up through Bruthwaite a Woodcock rose from a small patch of unfrozen boggy ground and lazily winged its way through the trees ... a little higher up a Snipe got up noisily and dashed off ... and six female Black Grouse appeared among the alders and wheeled round ... the tarn looked bleak as the mist rolled in ...
News this week of the colour ringed Greenshank I had at Glasson Point on 29th November 2017 ...
... it was ringed on the Ythan Estuary a year previously ...
Duncan writes -
Ends.
... and we feel lucky to have wintering Greenshank on the Solway !
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