The ‘Summer time Wine Crew’ arrived at Minsmere at round 8.15: maybe unsurprisingly we hardly met one other birder for many of the morning! To be trustworthy there wasn’t an immense quantity of birds both: the one waders on the East Scrape have been Black-tailed Godwits, however the a number of dozen Pintails have been good to see. Now I am sure to be shot down right here, however certainly this has to be a Caspian Gull?
All the standard winter highlights have been in proof: Bearded Tits, Stonechats, Mipits, Kingfishers, Marsh Harriers, Water Rails and so forth, however a really fascinating raptor was the feminine / juvenile harrier beneath: the query is: why has it solely obtained 4 ‘fingers’?…
