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After a day of heavy rain and strong winds yesterday, today it was dry and often sunny.  We visited the Wildlife and Wetland Trust centre at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire; we spent most of the time in the hides but enjoyed walking through the wetlands centre and seeing some of the more exotic wildfowl in the pens, especially as there was lots of sun to enjoy. My photographs are a mixture of captive and free birds.

Teal

Shelduck

Lapwing

Greylag goose

Mallard

Pochard

Golden eye (captive)

Moorhen

Wigeon

Crane

Avocet (captive)

Black-winged stilt (captive)

Redshank (captive)

Bewick swan – I presume resident as there were only three present