A wet walk this afternoon, with the highlight being another Osprey! It first appeared over the river before drifting south, and in the same spot again before it appeared to dive into the river behind the treeline. My first patch record. The next best bird was a single Wigeon, my first record further up than Little Milford and the first of the Autumn.
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| Another diving Osprey. |
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| The Wigeon. |
Other highlights were the first five
Teal of the autumn, three
Moorhen, at least one
Common Sandpiper, the first
Redshank for quite a while, 222
Black-headed Gull, a
Cormorant, a
Grey Heron, five
Little Egret, a
Great Spotted Woodpecker, a big flock of 49
Swallow over Uzmaston, seven
House Martin, three
Chiffchaff, ten
Long-tailed Tit, two
Goldcrest and
Treecrepper, two
Bullfinch and a
Reed Bunting heard.
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| A very smart Little Egret. |
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Nice to see the male Mallards have finished moulting.
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| The Grey Heron dropped into a stream in the marsh. |
