A cold sunny morning with a very light south-easterly.
Dave and I set off expecting the water bodies to be frozen, but in fact it wasn't as bad as we had feared. In fact the pool was almost completely ice-free, and the small top pool held a pair of Gadwall and a few Teal.
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| Drake Gadwall |
Unfortunately that was about as good as it got. The Flash field hosted 27 Lapwings and 48 Teal. Our patch tally of Coot reached nine.
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| Teal |
Dave spotted an egret in a distant field of corvids, and eventually we saw it perform a brief fly around before disappearing from sight again. We decided it was probably a Little Egret.
The lack of small birds is now extremely apparent, and I was left to take some pretty abysmal shots of a Buzzard displaying.
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| Buzzard |
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