Swans winter Swans, the day took me to a place in South Yorkshire, a place called Branton, a place of fields and hidden in these fields, were Swans. Has I came closer to the fields, I could see white blobs as I approached, I stopped at the closet blob, these turned out to be Mute Swans, nice to see but not the swans I was looking for, I was looking for the winter visitors.
I moved on down the road to where there were more Swans, these turned out to be mostly Whooper Swans, there were supposed to be a couple of scarcer Bewick’s amongst these, so graping the scope, I started to scan thru them, and eventually I found them, stuck at the back of the field in what seemed to be a furrow, typical, at least I found them.
After Branston I moved on North again and up to Wombwell, where unfortunately I found very little, so I moved over to Old Moor. Visiting the Tree Sparrow Farm feeders, once again very little here too, did see Blue Tit, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Woodpigeon, Dunnock and Long tailed Tit. After here I moved over to the reedbed hide and joined the party of gatherers looking at the Bearded Tits which were showing rather well but in very windy conditions, making photography very hard.
A few days before this trip, I travelled over to a place called Lower Laithe Reservoir to see the Red necked Grebe and also found Red Grouse
Video of the Day can be seen HERE
Birds Lower Laithe Reservoir : Black headed Gull, Canada Goose, Common Gull, Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, Jackdaw, Red Grouse, Red necked Grebe, Robin, Tufted Duck (10)
Birds at Branton : Bewick’s Swan, Linnet, Mute Swan, Whooper Swan (4)
Birds at Wombwell Ings : Black headed Gull, Blackbird, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Common Gull, Coot, Cormorant, Gadwall, Great Black backed Gull, Greylag Goose, Herring Gull, Lesser Black backed Gull, Magpie, Mallard, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Pheasant, Reed Bunting, Woodpigeon (16)
Birds at Old Moor : Bearded Tit, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Buzzard, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Gadwall, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Long tailed Tit, Pheasant, Robin, Stock Dove, Teal, Wigeon (16) 100/200
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