Tuesday, 1 November 2022

Bar-tailed Godwit Record Breaker


I thought this was noteworthy.

A young Bar-tailed Godwit has smashed the record for length of a non-stop flight in the species.

Travelling an astonishing 13,560 km in just over 11 days, the five-month-old godwit departed Alaska on 13 October and touched down at Ansons Bay in north-east Tasmania on 24th.

Nothing record breaking below from an early morning visit to Montrose Basin and a late afternoon look at Victoria Park and Keptie Pond for a Pallid Swift - failed.

The Pink-footed Geese below were flushed by someone walking out in front of the Tayock Bird Hide, the clue's in the name idiot!




Pintail female at Tayock



Pink-footed Geese



Greenshank, the Lurgies



Goldcrest, also Lurgies


Carrion Crow, Victoria Park, Arbroath






Stonechat, Victoria Park



Pintail hybrid at Keptie Pond for it's 3rd or 4th year


No idea where the yellow legs come from


The Pintail above's current mate, no ideas about this one, perhaps something with an exotic in it



Goosander drake, just this one and one other drake


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