Selected Aldcliffe bits yesterday and today.

[Dan Haywood]

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Pink-footed Goose:

Similar numbers yesterday and today: c2300 Aldcliffe Marsh S. Raining too heavily to grill for beans (fogged optics)….

Black-tailed Godwit:

450 on ‘The Flood’ and adjacent grass (A14) today.

Ringed Plover:

20 on Wildfowlers Pools S (A4S) today; a good count for here.

Pintail:

female Wildfowlers Pools S yesterday (thanks Barrie)

Wigeon:

60 grazing by ‘Frog Pond’ in field A5

[Dan Haywood]

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For interest, here are the histories of two Black-tailed Godwits ringed at the Wash that have been seen by the Lune estuary and Lune valley of late. Thanks Pete, Jean, Richard Du Feu and Jennifer Gill.

O-GW//W
01.09.19 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
01.03.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
06.03.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
28.03.20 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
01.09.20 Titchwell, Norfolk, E England
24.09.20 Titchwell, Norfolk, E England
01.12.20 Cockerham Sands, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
24.12.20 Newton Marsh, Preston, Lancashire, NW England
15.02.21 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
06.03.21 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
09.03.21 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England

O-YW//W
01.09.19 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
08.11.19 Genêts, Dragey-Ronthon, Normandy, N France
19.11.19 Baie du Mont St Michel, Manche, N France
14.03.20 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
25.03.20 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
08.08.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
09.08.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
23.08.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
19.09.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
13.02.21 Pilling Marsh, Lancashire, NW England
09.03.21 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England

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