Yes indeedy, I'm still trundling on at Galley and there's been some good "wins" of late too! Recent highlights include a highly jammy fly-by brent goose while I was slumped over the breakfast table a week or so ago. This is the most regular goose species I get here but they are less than annual, so a bonus.
Even better news came yesterday morning that there was a female "scaup sp" on the lake that had swam into the reeds without being nailed. Unfortunately I was in Kerry trying to secure some brown envelopes from the GAA so had to hotfoot it back yesterday pm before dusk to try and clinch the ID. Luckily, the bird was flying around showing off its white secondaries and grey primaries before it settled in front of the boat house allowing some mediocre but confirmatory lesser scaup record shots thusly:
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| A lesser scaup, yesterday |
Full Fat Patch Tickage! I even managed to get back home in time to scope it from the Majik Patio (TM) and sekure it onto the garden list, which was nice. Additional good news was that Old Spoons has gone to Kerry for a couple of days - ah well!
Sharp-eyed regular readers might think that this bird looks a bit familiar, and indeed it would seem that it is Basil's female from Lough Clubhir that he found last December. You can do a compare and contrast here. Nice of it to do a bit of a tour. News from this pm is that it is safely back on Basil's patch, along with a brace of tufties - would be handy if it pops back here with them in tow, as I still need them for the year!
All good!
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