Wigan Flashes 20th February 2018
The birding group visit this week was to Wigan Flashes, somewhere where I haven’t been since April 2016
Again, it was a rare dry February day so we were glad to get out. It would be fair to say that we saw nothing particularly special but in the lovely sunlight there were really nice groups – and decent numbers – of both Pochard and Goldeneye.
A plus was our first two Cetti’s Warblers of the year, both singing and a resounding SOng thrush in the woods. Unfortunately, the recently sighted drake Smew was nowhere to be found.
Bird Sightings : Wigan Flashes
| Canada Goose | 30 |
| Mallard | 12 |
| Northern Shoveler | 1 |
| Common Pochard | 14 |
| Tufted Duck | 40 |
| Common Goldeneye | 20 |
| Great Crested Grebe | 1 |
| Great Cormorant | 8 |
| Grey Heron | 1 |
| Common Moorhen | 1 |
| Common Coot | 20 |
| Common Snipe | 1 |
| Black-headed Gull | 100 |
| Mew Gull | 8 |
| Herring Gull | 6 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 20 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 1 |
| Common Wood Pigeon | 4 |
| Eurasian Jay | 1 |
| Great Tit | 2 |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | 4 |
| Long-tailed Tit | 8 |
| Eurasian Wren | 1 |
| Cetti’s Warbler | 2 |
| Eurasian Blackbird | 2 |
| Song Thrush | 1 |
| Reed Bunting | 3 |
| House Sparrow | 6 |