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Friday 17 March 2023

Red Crested Pochard and Blackwit

 





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.




                                                                    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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