Par on Sunday evening...

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Images from Par...

AMENDMENT: Having looked at the field guide this morning I have ascertained that the Goose is a Bar Headed Goose - escapee! This is also the view of a couple of people I consider to be expert bird watchers!
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Having spent a little time in the garden today (in between cleaning bursts!) we decided to get out to Par for a hour... I'll be glad when the Abbot gets his camera back. He seems lost without it. I offered mine again, but it was politely refused. Deafness is like solitary confinement and the camera for Trevor seems to have been a release from that, inducing communication with the outside world through the pictures he puts up on his blogs.
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An unusual visitor at Par Pool - Hybrid/Domestic Goose I think... Seems to like hanging out with the Canada Geese and they don't seem to mind. When it called out I was amazed.... It was a lovely sound (again, something that the Abbot missed completely); and such a pretty bird...

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I think this is a Juv. Rock Pipit. There were lots of them rumaging around for food in the Seaweed, which is also in abundance on Par Beach...



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Saturday

Went out last night with Derek, Sam, Ben & Poppy… and yes, I had another life tick! Thanks go to Derek again. There is no substitute for experience. It was a good night again. Amongst others we saw around 200 Kittiwake mingling with Fulmars, lots of Manx Shearwater (the life tick, which I must make a habit of looking for so that I can ID them in future), Rock Pipits in abundance, Nightjar (1 seen and 2 males heard) and heard Grasshopper Warbler x 3.


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I took this when we were listening to Nightjar... it was a lovely evening...

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My day list for my memorable Saturday:-
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1. Fulmar
2. Manx Shearwater
3. Gannet
4. Little Egret
5. Grey Heron
6. Mute Swan
7. Mallard
8. Buzzard
9. Sparrow Hawk
10. Kestrel
11. Pheasant (heard)
12. Curlew
13. Kittiwake
14. Black Headed Gull
15. Herring Gull
16. Greater Black Backed Gull
17. Stock Dove (only the second sighting of one for me)
18. Woodpigeon
19. Collared Dove
20. Tawny Owl (heard)
21. Nightjar
22. Swift
23. Swallow
24. Skylark
25. Rock Pipit
26. Wren (heard)
27. Dunnock
28. Robin
29. Song thrush (heard)
30. Blackbird
31. Grasshopper Warbler (heard)
32. Chiffchaff (heard)
33. Great Tit
34. Blue Tit
35. Coal Tit
36. Magpie
37. Jackdaw
38. Rook
39. Carrion Crow
40. Raven
41. Starling
42. House Sparrow
43. Chaffinch
44. Goldfinch
45. Greenfinch

Twenty minutes in the garden this morning and an hour and a quarter at Par this evening…
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(Neck on the line as I’m not good at ID’ing Pipits, but the legs are quite dark so I went for Rock Pipit after much deliberating... Collecting plenty of food for the young ones).
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My day list:-
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1. Cormorant
2. Grey Heron
3. Mute Swan
4. Canada Goose
5. Mallard
6. Buzzard
7. Kestrel
8. Moorhen
9. Oystercatcher
10. Black Headed Gull
11. Herring Gull
12. Lesser Black Backed Gull
13. Greater Black Backed Gull
14. Woodpigeon
15. Collared Dove
16. Swift
17. Swallow
18. Rock Pipit
19. Pied Wagtail
20. Wren
21. Dunnock
22. Robin
23. Stonechat
24. Songthrush
25. Blackbird
26. Reed Warbler (heard)
27. Chiffchaff (heard)
28. Great Tit
29. Blue Tit
30. Coal Tit
31. Magpie
32. Jackdaw
33. Carrion Crow
34. Starling
35. House Sparrow
36. Chaffinch
37. Goldfinch
38. Greenfinch
39. Linnet