Farlington Marshes - Totally Epic and "Bird Facts!" 6

Today was the day I saw 10 Little Egrets and 27 Peewits (Lapwings) and 9 Curlews in half an hour!!!! You may be wondering where the hell I got 10 Little Egrets and 27 Peewits from. It's quite obvious really. It's a fantastic wildlife reserve in Hampshire... A Red-breasted Goose is meant to be there... There are tonnes    of pools... It is awesome.... If you haven't got it now I am surprised, especially as it is in the title. Ta-da-da!.... It's Farlington Marshes!!!! Here's today's Farlington Marshes List!:

Ah, it's a Wood Pigeon. Again. 

2500+ Brent Goose
c150 Wood Pigeon
20 Stock Dove
11 Collared Dove
15 Water Pipit
27 Peewit
10+ Herring-gull (all br)
100+ Black-headed Gull (all br)
5 Mediterranean Gull (most br some part-br)
7 Lesser Black-backed Gull
2 Greater Black-backed Gull
4 Kestrel

The Little Egret, our most elegant heron. 

1 Buzzard
10 Little Egret
1 Manx Shearwater
15 Mute Swan
5 Common Snipe
1 Grey Heron
2 Smew (male and female pair both br)
100+ Mallard
4 Pochard (2 male and female pairs)
c15 Shoveler
50+ Dunlin
c15 Sanderling
1 Bearded Tit (call only)
10 Golden Plover (some br some non-br)
5 Grey Plover (all non-br)

 A pair of plump Pochard (no alliteration intended!)

1 Bittern
c15 Dabchick (Little Grebe)
20 Oystercatcher
c5 Ringed Plover Plover
2 Little Ringed Plover
3 Canadian Goose
50+ Carrion Crow
1 Raven
20 Rook
c10 Jackdaw
c20 Teal
1 Dovekie (Little Auk non-br)

I can't tell you all of it! There was loads! Well, the Langstone Ark will get some photos! There
were plenty of Rabbits as well. Oryctolagus
cuniculus for the win! They are so FAT. No offence to the podgy bunnies out there! More photos:

The buns about to run into a
patch of sun where it will
be more fun.
(seriously no rhyme intended).

A pair of buns not in the sun.

A bun in the sun.

The Curlew is our largest wader,
yet it is only the size of a Mallard.

Water Pipit. This one was pretty far away.

The recent sightings board. I would have liked to have seen the Red-breasted Goose but never did. I met a big load of birders with awesome scopes and cameras and they said they had not seen it either.

Next time we will be Getting Familiar With The Three Herons. The Grey Heron, the Little Egret and the Bittern. I might also do a bit on the Great White Egret, a rare heron in the British Isles.

"Bird Facts!" 6

The crop of the Wood Pigeon can hold up to 150 acorns which is equivalent to 1000 grains of wheat.

Wood Pigeon...

the crop of which can hold 100 of these!

 Byee! Get taking photos and spotting Glossy Ibises and Red-breasted Geese! Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (again.)