The early morning of 18th March found us taking a look at the
Stygian Owl near our hotel again before driving back towards Havana. A couple of reservoirs en route had produced good numbers of wildfowl on my previous visits so we decided to stop again this year.
Plenty of female
Ring-necked Ducks and
American Coots (no, it wasn't a dream loch on the Solway), plus a few
Ospreys,
Caspian Terns and a single
Snail Kite were on show on the first reservoir.
The second appeared empty at first until we scanned further out where a handful of
Ruddy Ducks and then a raft of
Lesser Scaups (mainly drakes) and
Ring-necks (mainly ducks) could be seen.
Then a huge raft of 62
Ring-necked Ducks appeared seemingly from nowhere! Not much else around apart from a particularly confinding
Palm Warbler, so we headed into Havana and on to the Zapata Peninsula.
The early morning of 18th March found us taking a look at the Stygian Owl near our hotel again before driving back towards Havana. A couple of reservoirs en route had produced good numbers of wildfowl on my previous visits so we decided to stop again this year.
Plenty of female Ring-necked Ducks and American Coots (no, it wasn't a dream loch on the Solway), plus a few Ospreys, Caspian Terns and a single Snail Kite were on show on the first reservoir.
The second appeared empty at first until we scanned further out where a handful of Ruddy Ducks and then a raft of Lesser Scaups (mainly drakes) and Ring-necks (mainly ducks) could be seen.
Then a huge raft of 62 Ring-necked Ducks appeared seemingly from nowhere! Not much else around apart from a particularly confinding Palm Warbler, so we headed into Havana and on to the Zapata Peninsula.
