A visit to my sister down south gave me the opportunity to visit Farlington Marshes this weekend. Myself and my birder's wife got up very early and arrived at the site at dawn and started a very wet walk to the east seawall to see if we could find the Red Breasted Goose that was spending time with Brent Geese there. After a miserable half hour walk of seeing nothing, we met some birders coming in the opposite direction who informed us that they had not seen the bird either, at which point we turned round and headed back to the car. As we arrived back at the car, caked in mud, we noticed a flock of Brent Geese on the water and as sod's law dictates, the goose was amongst them and very fine looking it was too.
We then decided to try and see the returning Ring Billed Gull at Gosport but got very lost and ran out of time. So, not the greatest of weekends for birding but at least one unseen bird removed from my dwindling unseen list and the 245th for the year so far - Would love to reach the 250 mark but not sure if that it is achievable given that we have just over a month left till 2013 and the birds I would need to reach such a total would mean a lot of travelling and twitches.
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