Sunday, 9 February 2025

Mandarin, Chiffchaffs and Godwits

 Hi everyone, in this week's post we go back up to Sandbach Flashes in search of some black-tailed godwits, a bird I've never seen before. One of the first birds I saw was a Mandarin duck.



Here is some footage of a strange hybrid duck that is a cross between a wigeon and something else.


A few shelducks:




Wigeons:


Shoveler:



A heron:

Curlews:


The next birds I saw was a small flock of chiffchaffs, quite early in the year but it is a new bird for the blog.



Finally, I spotted the two black-tailed godwits that had been sighted here the last few days. It is also a new bird for me. They are the two further birds you can see in the clip. The closer ones are wigeons and lapwings.



That is all for this week's post. Stay tuned for one new post every Friday - Monday (most of the time).
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