Birding Group Day Out to Neumann’s Flash & Haydyn’s Pool 22nd November 2011

Birding Group Day Out to Neumann’s Flash & Haydyn’s Pool 22nd November 2011

The birding group were a little bit concerned that the visit to Neumann’s Flash and Haydyn’s Pool wouldn’t be very fruitful because of the lack of rain recently but, as it happened, the pools were quite full. In truth there wasn’t that much around but there were a couple of good sighting nonetheless.  Above Neumann’s Flash  a large flock of Lapwings were flying to and fro but they wouldn’t settle down and kept wheeling around over the water. We couldn’t see any birds of prey around so we couldn’t quite figure out why they were so skittish.  At the edges of the the flock was a smaller flock of smaller birds but at that point we could not determine exactly what they were. One of the group thought that they had heard a Golden Plover call but we couldn’t be sure.

When we got round to the other side they had landed and amongst the hundred or so Lapwing there were, in fact, around twenty Golden Plover. Apart from that there was just the single lonely Wigeon. In the trees around, however, there was a small flock of around twenty Redwing nicely highlighted by the low November sun.  Haydyn’s Pool was a little more productive with Teal and Shoveler and a single female Goldeneye. At the far end of the pool at the very end of a bare tree branch a male Kestrel perched preening and passing the time of day giving us really good views though the scope. In the trees around a small flock of Long-tailed Tits tumbled along.

Species List

Bird Sightings : Neumann’s Flash

Bird Sightings : Haydyn’s Pool