I spent a few hour this afternoon in the Langstone
Harbour area just general birding really but certainly with the hope of finding
a white winged gull given the current influx. Sadly that wasn’t to be and it
was generally very quite though there were two highlights, none of which are
likely to spark a twitch!
Budds sewage farm held little of note but I was
able to pick out a Ferruginous Duck hybrid. This area has a long history of
records of these hybrids but the long returning bird is very Ferruginous Duck
like with some subtle anomalies. This individual looks like a straight forward
50/50 male Ferruginous Duck X Pochard hybrid. It’s also known in the area along
with a 50/50 female.
Next was bird of the day an absolutely stunning
male Blackbird! (I’ve never said that before!) Blackbirds are one of the more
common or at least obvious suffers of leucism a condition where pigment cells
fail to develop, I have seen a similar leucistic Blackbird to this before as
well as plenty that only suffered from lack of pigment in a few feathers. The colour
of this bird’s legs has also been affected. In case anyone cares it was
frequenting the edge of the Sinah golf club car park on Hayling Island
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