Month: October 2019
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29th October 2019 – Eastville Park & Stoke Park Bristol
I started my walk this morning in Stoke Park. It is very wet underfoot but by wading through the very deep puddles surrounding the area of reeds I did get good views of a male and female stonechat. Stonechat As I walked around Duchess Pond a grey heron took off and presented me with…
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27th October 2019 – Dyrham Park – National Trust
We always enjoy visiting Dyrham Park at this time of the year as the trees look glorious and there’s always a chance to see one of nature’s spectacular sights with the deer rutting. The stags were rounding up their hinds but we didn’t see any locking of horns. Maybe worth another trip later this…
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22nd October 2019 – Stoke Park Estate, Bristol
This lovely part of Bristol is well known to many motorists as they head in to or out of the city on the M32 but how many of them know its real beauty? The noise they cause does spoil it a little but if you bother to walk through this ancient parkland you will be…
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19th October 2019 – Stoke Park Estate Bristol
Having watched and enjoyed 3 games of rugby within 24 hours (Bristol Bears v Bath live, England v Australia and Ireland v New Zealand on television) I needed to stretch my legs a little and wandered over to Stoke Park. It was very warm in the sun and I was lucky to see a pair…
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17th October 2019 – Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Another dry day and so we made the most of it by crossing the Severn Estuary and visiting the Forest of Dean. Not that I had a lot of luck with birds except I took my first ever photo of a goldcrest (even if it was a rather poor photo). At the same pool there…
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16th October 2019 – Eastville Park, Bristol
The rain stopped for a while and we had a walk to our local park. We didn’t see many birds except for three grey herons and at least half a dozen cormorants around the lake. Probably not enough for a blog but as I haven’t taken many bird photographs for some time I was pleased…
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5th October 2019 – WWT Slimbridge
We had a last minute opportunity to go out birding this afternoon and so, not to waste time planning, we plumped for WWT Slimbridge where we can generally count on seeing something interesting. The first few hides didn’t produce anything very special (teal, lapwings and lots of greylag geese) but there was some excitement about…
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