Month: March 2018
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25th March 2018 – WWT Steart and RSPB Greylake
We made the most of the first day of British Summer Time which was a sunny day but with a cold wind. We started at WWT Steart and had a really good 10 km walk around the reserve but we didn’t see an awful lot of birds. In fact all we saw was a reed…
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23rd March 2018 – Stoke Park Estate, Bristol
I only had an hour to spare and so I wandered across to Stoke Park. The cold wind had ceased and it was good to feel some warmth in the day even though it was still quite grey. At first I only saw a few crows (one with a tasty meal) and some wood pigeon.…
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20th March 2018 – Severn Estuary
I arrived at Aust Warth in the sunshine but by the time I had taken my camera out of the car it had clouded over and stayed that way for the rest of the morning. I was hoping to have more sightings of the short-eared owl but it doesn’t work that way and all I…
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18th March 2018 – Stoke Park Estate, Bristol
Not many birds around this morning in Stoke Park but more people than usual enjoying winter sports in the snow. There were 4 mallards and 4 moorhen on the lake; 2 meadow pipits flew over the frozen boggy area and also a cormorant flew over much higher up and then a couple of blue tits…
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16th March 2018 – Aust Warth
Another visit to Aust was well rewarded with good views of a short-eared owl and (just as we were leaving and camera packed away) a kestrel.
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13th March 2018 – Severn Estuary
Quite out of the blue a stunning day with blue skies throughout and some warmth in the sun. I spent a wonderful morning on the Severn Estuary meeting lots of interesting people and seeing lots of birds: I started at Aust Warth where I had great views of a short-eared owl and a kestrel; I…
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10th March 2018 – North Somerset
On a trip to Midsomer Quilting in Chilcompton, Somerset (the UK’s favourite quilting shop) we stopped off very briefly at Chew Valley Lakes but the only photos Oli (my young apprentice) and I managed were of tufted ducks and a shelduck at Herriott’s Bridge. There were also 4 shovelers but they were too far away…
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9th March 2018 – Eastville Park
After two weeks in the sunshine of South Africa I was expecting not to see much colour on a walk round my local patch of Eastville Park this morning but I was pleasantly surprised. As well as the following birds which are photographed we saw the beautiful flash of blue as a kingfisher darted up…
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Birds of the Western Cape South Africa
I have been trying to catalogue the birds I saw on my recent trip to Cape Town and have created a page of Western Cape Birds. It is still a work in progress and I hope my young birdwatching friends Pierre and Gregory in Cape Town will help me to check and identify the birds (I…
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5th March 2018 – Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
Our last visit to Kirstenbosch on this trip to Cape Town: I was hoping to see male sunbirds (which we had seen on a previous trip) but we were unsuccessful but not unhappy as we had another lovely walk around the gardens and saw a spotted eagle-owl, and plenty of other birds Does this count…
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