Sunday 20 December 2015

Mid-December

Not much happened this week with my low enthusiasm for getting out and about the main reason!  A little walk along the River Teme from Leintwardine on Thursday produced 2 Dippers (neither of which was the colour ringed bird seen there a couple of weeks ago), a Green Sandpiper and a Little Egret while a little look at Chelmarsh the following day saw an adult Yellow-legged Gull in with the Lessers in the pre-roost but people sailing on the reservoir kept disturbing things.

Venus Pool today produced notable counts of 10 Pintail and 45 Shoveler in amongst 85 Wigeon, 200+ Teal, 110+ Lapwings and lots of manky Geese.

This colour ringed Canada Goose was also at Venus Pool today - it had been ringed on Windermere in June 2014, 208Km to the north


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