Thursday, 8 January 2009

Smew and iced-up CWP


8 Jan - most pits frozen over, a few open patches densely populated by wildfowl - 3 Smew (1m, 2f) pit 29, 4 Smew (2m, 2f) pit 57 (photo copyright Peter Pollard, also 3 fem Ruddy Ducks there), redhead Smew and 12 Goosander on pit 41. Single Snipe flew over pit 16 and Kent End Quarry. pit 74 held 14 Goldeneye on some small patches of open water. Later, 2 Grey Partridge seen in a stubble field near Driffield.

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