Every so often I head over to Poole Park which is often interesting for bird life. I tend to park at Whitecliff Park, walk along through Baiter Park until reaching the edge of Poole town centre before then doing a lap of Poole Park's boating lake and then returning back the way I've come. It was a glorious morning on this particular visit.
At Whitecliff Park there always seem to be quite a few crows and with a new camera to play with I took some decent photos of a couple of them.
This winter there seems to be good numbers of brent geese on this side of Poole Harbour.
This winter there also seems to be quite a large number of oystercatchers around the parks. The recent heavy rain means the grass is quite waterlogged in place which is ideal for them to feed on and also means they are less likely to be disturbed my humans.
There were a small number of greylag geese in Poole Park- today was apparently the first time they had been seen here for a little while with the overwintering birds returning from wherever they had been. The greylags are being studied and I always try to spot the rings if I can. The only one I could identify today was U062 which is actually the goose which has been resighted the most times in the project and has never been spotted outside of Poole Park.
As usual there were a number of Canada geese on the edge of the car park near the Ark café but amongst them was a single turnstone. It looked quite vulnerable amongst the birds that are many times bigger than it but it was darting around so fast it never really looked like it was in any danger.
The lake was fairly quiet today with mostly the common birds there but there were two shelducks in the little lagoon.
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