Far ings 17/10/2011

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:10 pm

3 hours sepnt around the reserve today. The ferruginous duck was still presnt on the water body opposite the old visitor centre.

Also a juv Artic skua over the same lake gave good views, wonder if it was the same bird seen the other day and has just been flying around the humber for easy pickings???? both new birds for me and my dad.

Other highlights were

Red kite over. My first at far ings
Scaup female on ness pit. Another first for me at far ings

Plus the usual

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

did you manage to get any photos of the skua Anthony; there have been a few reports on the upper Humber in the last week and it is not clear how many birds there have been or if they all refer to the same bird hanging around

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:24 pm

Pictures were blurry and distant sadly but the from what i can pick out from the terrible set of images is that the bird had white tips on all of its primaries, one wing having a little more white on. Also on the under wing one wing is fairly hidden on all the photos but the other underwing is about 33% white mainly on the primaries but what I can see of the other wing it doesn't have any white on the primaries. Interestingly this is the same wing that has more white on the upper wing to. Also had about and inch or two of black tip to its tail.

Hope that information can help out.

Mandy West · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:44 pm

3 skuas seen this evening on the Humber, very poor record shots obtained but have posted them on my blog, so any thoughts would be most welcomed!
http://wwwmandywest.blogspot.com/
Mandy

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:38 pm

This artic skua seen by Mandy is different to the one I saw I will post a heavy crop of a bird and put a link up. Mandy's bird was nearly completly white on the underparts mine was just at on the primaries underneath.

Geoff Mullett · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:36 pm

Ferruginous duck still present today on the pit to the right of the approach road, but flew to the Pursuit Pit around 15.00.

Geoff

The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Far ings 17/10/2011

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