Each year, seemingly earlier and earlier presumably through global warming, Red Crested Pochards return to the Ingrebourne Valley in ever increasing numbers.
A few years back I can recall 3 turning up, a good record at the time, numbers have steadily increased however, on March 11th, I had a remarkable 10 birds. They will obviously disperse as per last year, 2022 was left with one pair who bred raising 4 Ducklings. Unfortunately none of these made it to decent size as I suspect all, or most were predated by Pike.
Last year I actually saw the Duck trying to defend the Ducklings, in the margins of the lake from the attention of a large Pike, talking to Anglers later confirmed they had seen this at other times as well with Tufted young.
Hopefully this year they can have more success.
A few years back I can recall 3 turning up, a good record at the time, numbers have steadily increased however, on March 11th, I had a remarkable 10 birds. They will obviously disperse as per last year, 2022 was left with one pair who bred raising 4 Ducklings. Unfortunately none of these made it to decent size as I suspect all, or most were predated by Pike.
Last year I actually saw the Duck trying to defend the Ducklings, in the margins of the lake from the attention of a large Pike, talking to Anglers later confirmed they had seen this at other times as well with Tufted young.
Hopefully this year they can have more success.
7 of the 10 RCP
Grey Wagtail
On February 18th I had a really good count of Black Tailed Godwit at Beckton Sewage Works, one of which was a colour ringed individual. As you do, I photographed and sent off on this to see where it hailed from and its history, from the data below you will see it was a well-travelled Wader.
It was firstly rung on 25.5.2017 in Iceland, S Ice, Rangárvallasýsla, Eystri Rangá,Stóra Hof and there after to date, it has been seen and recorded 42 times.It shows the value of a colour ringing scheme and obviously provides so much data and information on the birds movements.
25.5.2017 Iceland, S Ice,Rangárvallasýsla,Eystri Rangá,Stóra Hof
2.8.2017 Ireland, S Ire, Cork, Clonakilty Bay, Clogheen Marsh
12.9.2017 England, E Eng, Essex, Blackwater estuary, Heybridge
16.9.2017 England, E Eng, Essex, Blackwater estuary, Heybridge
2.10.2017 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
3.10.2017 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
3.11.2017 England, SE Eng, Kent, Thames estuary, Cliffe Pools
30.12.2017 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
7.1.2018 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
19.1.2018 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
7.10.2018 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
26.10.2018 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
28.10.2018 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
12.1.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
12.1.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
24.2.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
9.3.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
9.3.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
13.3.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
13.3.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
14.3.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
25.3.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
11.4.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
12.4.2019 England ,E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
18.4.2019 Iceland, E Ice, S-Múlasýsla, Álftafjörður, Starmýri
16.7.2019 England, E Eng, Norfolk ,North Norfolk, Titchwell
27.7.2019 England, E Eng, Norfolk, North Norfolk, Titchwell
11.9.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
28.11.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
30.11.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
13.12.2019 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Thurrock Thameside NP
13.7.2020 England, E Eng, Norfolk, North Norfolk, Cley
19.8.2020 England, E Eng, Essex, Blackwater estuary, Heybridge
23.8.2020 England, E Eng, Essex, Blackwater estuary, Heybridge
26.8.2020 England, E Eng, Essex, Blackwater estuary, Heybridge
23.9.2020 England, E Eng, Essex, Blackwater estuary, Heybridge
29.5.2021 Iceland, S Ice,Rangárvallasýsla,Eystri Rangá, Dýjanes
13.8.2022 England, E Eng, Norfolk, the Wash, Snettisham
22.8.2022 England, E Eng, Norfolk, North Norfolk, Titchwell
8.1.2023 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames estuary, Erith Pier
18.2.2023 England, E Eng, Essex, Thames Estuary, Beckton Sewage Works
27.2.2023 England, SE Eng, Kent, Thames estuary, Woolwich Arsenal
15.3.2023 42 records
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