lazza
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I was in Munich for work this week, and had a couple of hours free so headed up the A92 to Echinger Stausee near Moosburg. A beautiful setting, and clearly a very important habitat for several species... and apart from a single cyclist, not one other person there except for me!
I had been hoping for a night heron, as I had understood they have been known to breed there, but I didn't manage to see any. However, the bird species list in 2 hours (walking along only about a third of one side of the lake) was quite good:
On the lake:
Mute swans (well over 200)
Coot (at least 500)
Mallard (100-150)
Pochard (40-50)
Reed warbler (30-40)
Great-crested grebe (15-20)
Greylag goose (5, plus one presumed hybrid that was mostly white, except for a grey-brown neck and back, but also showing the white forehead of a whitefront)
Tufted duck (50-60)
Common tern (20-30)
Black-headed gull (100-150)
Little gull (2)
Grey heron (2)
Gadwall (8-10)
Cormorant (20-25)
Lapwing (80-100)
Common sandpiper (6)
Little egret (1)
And an unidentified grey-brown, slender duck with bright pink-red bill (red-crested pochard??)
In the woods:
Coal tit (2)
Great tit (2)
Blue tit (20-25)
Woodpigeon (10)
Nuthatch (1)
Chaffinch (8)
Chiffchaff (1 heard)
Marsh tit (1)
Blackcap (2)
Icterine Warbler (1) - a lifer for me :t:
Also
Barn swallows (50-60) and House martins (10-15)
I had been hoping for a night heron, as I had understood they have been known to breed there, but I didn't manage to see any. However, the bird species list in 2 hours (walking along only about a third of one side of the lake) was quite good:
On the lake:
Mute swans (well over 200)
Coot (at least 500)
Mallard (100-150)
Pochard (40-50)
Reed warbler (30-40)
Great-crested grebe (15-20)
Greylag goose (5, plus one presumed hybrid that was mostly white, except for a grey-brown neck and back, but also showing the white forehead of a whitefront)
Tufted duck (50-60)
Common tern (20-30)
Black-headed gull (100-150)
Little gull (2)
Grey heron (2)
Gadwall (8-10)
Cormorant (20-25)
Lapwing (80-100)
Common sandpiper (6)
Little egret (1)
And an unidentified grey-brown, slender duck with bright pink-red bill (red-crested pochard??)
In the woods:
Coal tit (2)
Great tit (2)
Blue tit (20-25)
Woodpigeon (10)
Nuthatch (1)
Chaffinch (8)
Chiffchaff (1 heard)
Marsh tit (1)
Blackcap (2)
Icterine Warbler (1) - a lifer for me :t:
Also
Barn swallows (50-60) and House martins (10-15)