This is part two of the day on Texel twitching the Dutch male Spectacled Eider. Having had good scope views and taken mediocre photos on the choppy seas in the first half of the afternoon, we headed out in search of Geese. Not a hard target, given there are many thousands of them on Texel. Our first Bird stop was for a small party of Fieldfares feeding on the seawall.
The first field of Geese we stopped at, proved to be a large flock of Brent Geese.
It didn't take us to find a large field of mainly Barnacle Geese.
Another large field, but this time it was mainly White-fronted Geese.
As we that thawed out from the morning's bitterly cold wind, Pete was keen for another look at the Spectacled Eider in the late afternoon as the sun would be behind us. The light was better, but the Spectacled Eider was further out, due to the dropping tide. Despite the better light, I couldn't improve on the photos from the morning.
We decided to start heading towards our accommodation for the evening. There were more fields of Geese to check in the last of the sunlight. There should have been a few Tundra Bean Geese on the island, but finding them without detailed directions hadn't proved easy, given the large numbers of Geese-filled fields to check.
The sun might have given up for the day, but these Geese hadn't. They were still busily feeding in the fading light.
I had sorted out a room in the Fletcher in De Koog on the West side of Texel. I had hoped to be greeted by a life-sized statue of the most famous Fletcher in the foyer, but perhaps Ronnie Barker wasn't as well-known in Holland. It was a reasonable-priced hotel with a good breakfast, given Texel accommodation is not cheap. We briefly looked at the restaurant, before heading out to the Burgers, Beers & Blues restaurant that Pete had spotted as we walked from a nearby Lidl car park. We both reckoned this was a much better option for the evening meal.