Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Thursday 18 November 2010

Tits Out


This is getting silly now. This morning I headed off before first light and arrived at a very blustery Cossington Meadows in yet another ill-advised and fruitless attempt to see Bearded Tits in the county.

No pinging, no reed-top flitting - feck all. Apart from strong wind.

Titless Reeds

After an hour and a half of watching titless reeds I called it a day and went to have a quick look around Tern Pool before heading home and into work. Good to see a range of duck species - though none in big numbers and nothing unexpected. I do like a good Gadwall though.

Bad photo of a good Gadwall, with company. The Coot is shouting 'low-listing tart' at me.

Only unexpected thing around the pool was a single Dunlin. Which was scant consolation to say the least!

2 comments:

Stewart said...

It needs to be nice and calm to get a good show from the tits Mark..

Skev said...

Do you mean me or the weather?

They are still about - maybe tomorrow ....