Around 10 o'clock, I'd had enough of prowling around the house like a caged animal, so dosed up with cold remedies, I took a walk over to the lake, just to see if anything new had arrived, it hadn't! Just 4 CANADA GEESE, 3 pairs of MALLARD and two MOORHEN were seen, and I beat a hasty retreat back home, feeling worse than when I left :-)
The day was almost a total loss, but as often the case there is always something to make the day, today it was seeing a cock PHEASANT arrive at the garden feeders, only the second one ever, the first one being seen back in December 2002!
One other bird of note was a LESSER BLACKED BACK GULL (51) flying over the house, one more for the months list :-)
Above and Below: The cock Pheasant in the garden
11 comments:
I wouldn't mind the Canada Geese at Reculver, a scarce bird there. Another dull day and heavy winds, only a few weeks to the first Swallows i suspect.
Sorry to hear you're not 100% up to it yet Warren....keep taking the medicine.
More of the same weather tomorrow Marc. It sure will be a spring to appreciate this year :-)
Pete,
Thanks mate, I will ;-)
Well I hope you will get better soon too... I'm starting to visit again and got a pretty 45 minutes of encounter with snow bunting today, just two minutes away from home... Got 250 shots mate!!! Incredible.... I see you already have 51 species spotted, quite an incredible number... I just over 20 now but nothing has started over here yet ;-)
I see gulls come up trumps again Warren!
Hope you're feeling well enough for a FPW tomorrow.
Cheers
Davo
Hi Warren.
I hope you feel better really soon, and you will be back out on your patch clockingup the numbers.
At least the weather isn't up to much.
I was going to end by saying have a good weekend, but instead I will just say Keep taking the medicine Warren.
Some nice new birds found so far this month, well done! :-)
Cool! I would love to see a Pheasant in my backyard. I've only seen one, and it was in Michigan. Stay on the mend, Warren!
If there`s no improvement in the weather Warren, the best thing you can do is stay indoors. Get well soon mate.
I hope you decided to stay in the warm and get yourself properly better today Warren. We still have atrocious winds here!
So odd to see a Pheasant in the garden :)
Nice shots of the pheasant Warren, they certainly never visit our garden, ha! I hope you're feeling better really soon. Take care.
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