Monday 18 January 2010

Weekend Visit

A really good and interesting two days spent with Derek Julian, Sam and Ben at Chew Valley Lake and Slimbridge yielded twentythree Year and six Life Ticks.
The birds in bold green are the Life Ticks.

Goosander
Reed Bunting
Green Woodpecker
Barnacle Goose
Shelduck
Gadwall
Bewick's Swan
Skylark
Water Rail
Peregrine Falcon
Pochard
Mandarin Duck
Lesser Black-backed Gull
White Fronted Goose
Black-tailed Godwit
Ruff
Curlew
Little Grebe
Greylag Goose
Pintail
Linnet
Stock Dove
Sparrowhawk

2 comments:

  1. A very productive weekend Trevor, I would love to see a Mandarin Duck, they look so exotic.

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  2. Hi Jan.

    Yes they are ...We were lucky we saw a wild one and claim a life tick.

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