American Wigeon at Lintrathen and many, many Bramblings

Lintrathen today to try and get a better photo of the American Wigeon, I did but still never got close to it at all so reverted to video but even that was filmed at 104 times zoom! In a field nearby a flock of perhaps 400 small birds were active and when I later analysed the species in photos I found at least 90% in the photo were Bramblings, wow.

American Wigeon video, click here,  

American Wigeon drake with two Eurasian Wigeon for comparison

Bramblings photographed very near to dusk and over-exposed deliberately because the light had gone

Bramblings, always distant

Most of these are Bramblings and this is only part of the huge flock which at this point were flushed by a Merlin

Lintrathen from the new hide