a few oddments

a good afternoon with plenty of raptor activity including a fine male Hen Harrier and later a female; a flock of 20 Barnacle Geese flew west but where are they from? there are 500 on the upper Humber and they do go awol at times so could all the flocks on the Lincs coast be from Whitton? or has there been an influx from the Netherlands? The Curlew had been feeding under a thick thorn hedge with others noted in a wood -- a Woodcock dropped in on the ice covered road and scurried into the nearest ditch