A stroll turns into a mad rush 4-11-12

With going to Far Ings yesterday,so today Jacqui and myself thought we would wander down Barton pits for a look around to see if we could pick up any Waxwing or Firecrest,with a leisurely stroll down to the sailing club pit we watched a few Goldcrest making sure no Fires were in with them,we reached the pit where a lot of winter duck including Gadwall,Goldeneye,Shoveler,Wigeon were present but I picked out a female Red crested Pochard this to be the second female in Barton as the one being present on new pit 4 at Far Ings so we was happy to find our own bird,quite a few Little Grebe on this pit we walked along the road towards the Humber bank intending to head for pit 25 but Mandy & Darren soon put a stop to that by texting us that 2 confiding Twite were present along the Humber bank at Far Ings,on that note we hurried up there not before picking out a lone Knot in with the Common Redshank on the foreshore.
After a 20 minute rush we finally reached Chowder Ness but as I looked through my bins to see Darren and Mandy not taking any photos my instinct told me that they had gone,but I was told wrong and that we had walked right passed them so being guided to them which was a relief due to Jacqui about to get another lifer on her list and has been a few years since I last saw them at Frampton Marsh

R.C.Pochard (F.I)

R.C.Pochard (Barton pits)

Twite

Waters Edge and Barton Pits 20-10-12

With the sun shinning Jacqui and myself decided on taking a break from Far Ings and having a change for the east side of the Humber bridge.
We started of at Waters Edge visitor center and made our way through to Pasture road with only a few duck on the pools,we continued down to the sailing club lake where we knew there would be more winter duck with plenty of Shoveler and Wigeon present and a single female Goldeneye,a few Great crested Grebes on the lake and at least 6 Little Grebes we continued toward pit 25 where there was at least 40 Mute Swans present on this pit and a vast amount of coots along with Tufted Duck and Pochard,The gull flock contained mainly Black-headed with a few Common Gulls mixed in,with not much else about we continued to walk back along the Humber bank where we picked up on some waders,which included 10 Dunlin,4 Turnstone,a few Curlew,Bar-tailed Godwit and Common Redshank on the foreshore.
I stopped at the private garden to watch some Tree Sparrows that had come back to their winter ground which was nice,with the light fading fast we continued back home Winter now closing in fast.

Bits n Bobs

Here is some photo's from the past few weeks

Humber View Point 29-9-12

With Jacqui still recovering from her operation we decided on taking a short steady walk down to the view point,with the tide on the way in I had hoped for some birds such as Skuas or Gannets to be moving through but no luck with that.
We did watch a female Marsh Harrier come up the Humber and over the bridge also a large raft of mixed duck Wigeon and Teal loafing about in the middle of the river,a flock of wader were wandering around on the mud which consisted of Bar-tailed Godwit and Redshank with a Curlew giving some good photography opportunities and a Apache attack helicopter flew over from the north side of the river not something you see every day.

Toft Newton Reservoir 19-9-12

With Anthony Bentley asking me if I wanted to go for the Pectoral Sandpiper at Toft Newton,I jumped at the chance of a real show off of a County and year tick with arrangements made for setting off at 9am.
On arriving Darren Chapman was already on site we both got down to getting some shots of this real show off bird with it spending a lot of time around our feet,after a good while and the wind being cold Anthony and myself decided on going and getting a welcomed coffee on reaching the car park good friend Dave Hutton had arrived and pointed him in the right direction.
After a coffee and a ciggy or 2 we headed back for some more shots not without stopping first for some of the more flighty Juvenile Ringed Plover after a while Dean Eades and his farther arrived and I think once the banter started the photography came to a stand still more or less,but a great day and good to catch up with everyone.
With 5-6 Common Buzzard and Yellow Wagtail also being noted

Pectoral Sandpiper

Ringed Plover ( Juv )