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sligo bay in frosty sunshine thurs am (1 Viewer)

erne

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during a quick visit to sligo bay thurs 2 hours after high tide, i was delighted to see around 30 brent geese-one wearing a metal band, right leg.
There were lots of oystercatchers and one was also wearing a similar band!
redshanks heron turnstones,maybe a greenshank.
It was a beautiful place. Ice crunched underfoot and the birds calling as they fed at the edge of the retreating tide.
Benbulben stood across the water in the distance with a snowy white top-bringing memories of a very strenuous climb last halloween.
I am increasingly content with my renewed interest in bird watching.
ideas of a better scope are tempting me - to be able to read the band codes and know the tremendous journeys these little birds have made.
it is a source of great mystery and leads me to reflect that we understand very little of our vast universe.
 
erne said:
during a quick visit to sligo bay thurs 2 hours after high tide, i was delighted to see around 30 brent geese-one wearing a metal band, right leg.
There were lots of oystercatchers and one was also wearing a similar band!
redshanks heron turnstones,maybe a greenshank.
It was a beautiful place. Ice crunched underfoot and the birds calling as they fed at the edge of the retreating tide.
Benbulben stood across the water in the distance with a snowy white top-bringing memories of a very strenuous climb last halloween.
I am increasingly content with my renewed interest in bird watching.
ideas of a better scope are tempting me - to be able to read the band codes and know the tremendous journeys these little birds have made.
it is a source of great mystery and leads me to reflect that we understand very little of our vast universe.
Thirty Brent Geese. What a treat ! We only get them as a rare vagrant where I am. The Oystercatchers are always great to see. I know what you mean about reading those bands and tremendous journeys. If you are interested in the tremendous journeys of migration, then you may enjoy, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul, if you haven't already read it.
 
thanks

Mark Bruce said:
Thirty Brent Geese. What a treat ! We only get them as a rare vagrant where I am. The Oystercatchers are always great to see. I know what you mean about reading those bands and tremendous journeys. If you are interested in the tremendous journeys of migration, then you may enjoy, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul, if you haven't already read it.


must look out for that book thanks again
 
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