Thursday
25th
February light to fresh N Sunny 5 to 7C
A message on facebook from David Gray tells me that
there are five bean geese about five miles from me. I am surprised
that I haven't received any text messages from the oracle.
Two miles out of Whittlesey I receive six messages on my
mobile in quick succession. Bean geese at Nene washes RSPB reserve, I
pedal there as quickly as my short, fat, hairy legs can go.
It
is a beautiful clear sunny day and the cold accentuates the sound of
whooping from a pair of cranes
quite a distance away.
No
sign of the bean geese unfortunately, the list grows though as a
couple of whooper
swan
family parties flies by whooping.
In
beautiful sunshine and a cool northerly breeze I explore around a
gravel pit that has a lot of duck on it and disturb a couple of
muntjac. The way they dash off with their tails held vertical is
interesting, making them very visible amongst the tall vegetation.
A
couple of peregrines buzz around too disturbing large flocks of
golden plovers and lapwings.
I
leave to go search of a rough-legged buzzard at Thorney. Three hours
of searching gives me only a single common buzzard and a very distant
barn owl.
So the year list is now at 172, nineteen ahead of this
time last year.
37.96
Miles 417 elevation up 429 elevation down
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