The long-tailed tits have continued their massed attacks on the relatively few suet balls still in the garden feeder. I reckon the maximum number seen at the same time was eight, though things can change pretty quickly as this video shows:
Long-tailed Tits
Elsewhere my third attempt at the grey-headed lapwing at East Chevington drew another blank. The trouble with this bird is it doesn't keep its appointments. Like an unreliable employee, it turns up three of four days in a row then throws a sickie and wasn't sighted at all on Friday. All the signs were good with a healthy clutch of twitchers peering over the suspect field but an hour later all had left bar me. All I got was a couple more distant fieldfare sightings and a suspected redwing that turned out (I think) to be a song thrush.
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It was bit hard to tell as the low sun was casting a lot of shadow and focusing was quite tricky.
In complete contrast to the absent lapwing the equally rare white-billed diver at Druridge Country Park proved highly reliable. Also one you will not find in your Book of British Birds, it has been described as the most photographed bird in Northumberland and ended up performing its stunts pretty much in front of the touristy cafe.
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It's also a bird that generally does not favour fresh water lakes.
Apparently it doesn't get on well with cormorants and I noted that the male tufted ducks were going round together in solidarity.
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| Tufted Ducks |
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