Friday 4 May 2012

Hit the bar

I managed to arrange a job visit up the county this afternoon so after work headed to Hauxley to see what was about. The north wind was howling round the Ponteland hide and I could have been in the high arctic given the temperature. The usual Greylags were about, one pair with four young, Shelduck, Tufties, Teal and a Heron to amuse me till a pair of geese dropped in.
One of the long staying Bar headed Geese at Hauxley appears to have taken up with a Greylag and he/she was giving it some stick at one stage despite a slight disadvantage in stature.
Eventually they both started to call as the usual prelude to heading off in flight possibly to create a Barlag Goose.
 Dodgy shot but my first Common Sandpiper of the year fed around the pond
and hot legs turned up for a brief visit.

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