December 6th
After the mornings visit at Wallasea Island RSPB to round off the day I visited Two Tree on the way home, coinciding the visit with a rising tide.
With the sun now out in all its glory, I timed my arrival with perfection as the waders began to come into roost.
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| How many would you say in this flock of Knot? |
For an hour I watched them and scanned around looking for something out of the ordinary, nothing materialised but I did have some good flocks with Knot and Dunlin in particular present in numbers.
Flocks were on the move a lot so counts are always going to be your best estimate as they came and went from the scrape to the Saltings and vice versa.
I arrived at the following.
Dunlin – 400
Avocet – 56
Knot – 1200 a rough estimate
Grey Plover – 12
Kingfisher – 1
Bar Tailed Godwit - 35 outside on Salting but didn’t come in to scrape
Black Tailed Godwit – 5
Greenshank – 5
Common Snipe – 42 around the margins
Ringed Plover – 37
Lapwing – 108
The Knot were interesting, I watched a flock drop in(as above)and merge with birds already roosting, as they dropped in I estimated the airborne flocks number, thinking around 600 odd birds.
I decided when I got home to count the flock from a photo, basically to see how far out I was.
Below is the actual number give or take 4 or 5, surprising but they are densely packed.
Grey Plover – 12
Kingfisher – 1
Bar Tailed Godwit - 35 outside on Salting but didn’t come in to scrape
Black Tailed Godwit – 5
Greenshank – 5
Common Snipe – 42 around the margins
Ringed Plover – 37
Lapwing – 108
The Knot were interesting, I watched a flock drop in(as above)and merge with birds already roosting, as they dropped in I estimated the airborne flocks number, thinking around 600 odd birds.
I decided when I got home to count the flock from a photo, basically to see how far out I was.
Below is the actual number give or take 4 or 5, surprising but they are densely packed.
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| Surprising isn't it |
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