The Christmas break resulted in three birding trips, Bawdsey, Lynford Arboretum and Minsmere.
The first was all about wildfowl and produced a life list bird in a Tundra Bean Goose grazing in a field, this spit is always difficult to pin-point but the bill pattern and orange legs were good enough for me. Also on the same land were 4 Bewick’s Swans, Mute Swans and a large number of Greylag Geese.
On the lagoons we saw Pochard, Tufted Duck, Widgeon, Canada Goose and Snipe. On the periphery there was Meadow Pipit, Green Woodpecker and Lapwing. 
Our second trip was to Lynford, where many common species were in view including Greater Spotted Wood Pecker, Marsh Tit, Long-tailed Tit and Nuthatch. Also the less common Willow Tit was heard and seen deeper into the wood and there was an Egyptian Goose on the river. On the near by “old“lake there were 4 Goosander along with Greylag Goose.
Finally, on new years day we headed for Minsmere and did the whole reserve, highlights being, both Whooper and Bewick’s Swan, a very large number of Snipe, Treecreeper, Marsh Harrier, Common Gull and Red-throated Diver out at sea. It was disappointing to the scrape so flooded and therefore the lack of waders, only the longer legged Black-tailed Godwit hanging on in there! 
2007 Year End List:
Life bird count: 358 Year bird count: 304 Month bird count: 86
Our second trip was to Lynford, where many common species were in view including Greater Spotted Wood Pecker, Marsh Tit, Long-tailed Tit and Nuthatch. Also the less common Willow Tit was heard and seen deeper into the wood and there was an Egyptian Goose on the river. On the near by “old“lake there were 4 Goosander along with Greylag Goose.
Finally, on new years day we headed for Minsmere and did the whole reserve, highlights being, both Whooper and Bewick’s Swan, a very large number of Snipe, Treecreeper, Marsh Harrier, Common Gull and Red-throated Diver out at sea. It was disappointing to the scrape so flooded and therefore the lack of waders, only the longer legged Black-tailed Godwit hanging on in there!
2007 Year End List:
Life bird count: 358 Year bird count: 304 Month bird count: 86
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