Monday, October 22, 2018

Herdlevær 19 October 2018 - Jack Snipe

A quick visit just before the light went showed there were plenty of birds on the move. At least 400 Fieldfare gråtrost were feeding in the fields along with plenty of the other usual thrushes.

Common Scoter svartand

As usual I stopped for a coffee and had a 10 minute seawatch, Common Scoters svartand, a couple of Velvet Scoter sjøorre and a late Oystercatcher tjeld put in an appearance.

The walk back to the car produced several Common Snipe enkeltbekkasin and one Jack Snipe kvartbekkasin - the first of the autumn for me, although people who get to go birding had them at least a couple of weeks back.

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