We had a journey to make to Wakefield this morning and I took the opportunity to visit (a packed) Pugney's, on the way home, to look for the Long Tailed Duck that has been seen here for the past few weeks.
A very dull, cool outing with plenty of mud on and off the main path.
After a bit of gazing were tried the second lake where a couple of birders, in the hide there , told us where to expect to see the LTD - having seen it themselves earlier.
We needed to carry on round to the top corner.
A peep into the next hide revealed 2 more birders who had also seen a very distant L.T.D. - it was constantly diving and reappearing a long way from its original dive point!
The gentlement set up his scope and he was amazingly fortunate to pick it out, about as far away as possible on the other side of the lake.
With his help I managed to get the bird in the camera, on full zoom , and got a photo of it before it dived and disappeared.
A Lifer for me.
The photo is..... well.... distant!
Hoping to get a better sighting we legged it along the path and we spent the next hour searching.
Sue did manage a glimpse of it at one point but it dived and disappeaeared again.
Sue escaped to the car and I continued my hunt for another 30 mins before we had to leave.
Anyway I did see it and I did get a photo, just a shame I could not get a nearer view and better photo.
There were at least 10 other birders here on the hunt for it.
I must admit I did not give the other birds here the attention they deserved today.
Late afternoon I had a bog trot up the local fields, a cold windy outing with not much going on.
Birds:
Long Tailed Duck - Lifer.
Mallard, Black Headed Gull, Coot, Moorhen, Lapwing.
Great Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull.
F. Goldeneye.
Cormorant, Blackbird, Great Crested Grebe, Mute Swan, Canada Goose.
Wigeon, Shoveler ,Pochard. Tufted Duck.
Heron, Little Egret.
Buzzard over the M1 on our way home.
Local Fields:
c40 Small Gulls (Nearly all Common Gulls).
1 Kestrel.
Not a lot else.
Riddle:
Which animal can jump higher than a two-story house?
Answer below the photos
Riddle Answer:
Any animal - a house cannot jump.
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