When I heard about this Wayward Goose I unashamedly rubbished it and with the attention it's been attracting, it's now cool to be plastic... That us if you're as good looking as this Emperor Goose!
And it was close up and personal at VP late afternoon! Tiptoeing through the Lapwings :-)
Fresh in all the way from Alaska, honest...
John Reeves kick started his day with a Common Tern at Priorslee Lake. Better still, it was still there late morning! And pretty obliging as it ranged over the whole lake for an hour or so...
Here's a selection of pics in chronological order. What a welcoming fly by! It's an adult already in winter plumage and the first image shows the dark carpal bar and secondaries, dark bill and white forehead...
Just before 1.00, it then started climbing and circling, eventually heading south and lost to view!
A small flooded area in a stubble field is often a productive habitat and this Greenshank was my first for the year!
My attention was then focussed on seeing if the Common Tern at Priorslee was still present?
Kingfishers seem hard to come by at VP of late but you have to grab the moment when it happens? This one lasted c10 seconds and three different poses...
All my Hobby sightings this year have been distant and with two of them hawking over the trees on the far side of the pool, it looked like the same old story... Then one broke ranks and zipped across the pool...
Three frames before I lost him!
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