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Hares, waders and other birds at Elmley

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Carrying on from my last post, where I had just reached the actually RSPB reserve. We checked out most the hides and saw very little, nothing close enough to photograph. So we then head to far hide that was a fair old distance away. When we arrived we looked out over Windmill creek and there was a flock of Knots nearby

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Goldfinches at Rainham Marshes

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Last Tuesday I headed to Rainham Marshes on a day off. I was meant to be heading to Chelmsford to see a Red throated diver (or loon) that had turned up in the park there, but it had left on the Monday (and was sadly later found dead), so I head to Rainham marshes instead. It was a bit disappointing to be honest, as the water level was very low, with many of the better marsh frog and little grebe areas completely dry. But on the bird feeders I finally got a bogey species: the goldfinch

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Birds in Richmond Park

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There plenty of birds in Richmond Park other than those Ive posted about. In the first pond we came to a heron was standing where I had seen one eating frogs earlier this year.

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Buzzard mobbed by jackdaws and parakeets

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While down at the main lakes in Richmond Park I spotted a group of birds in the sky. It turned out to be a buzzard (a first me within Greater London) being mobbed not just by jackdaws, which is not such an unusual sight, but by ring necked parakeets as well!

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Two tree island - wheatear

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A couple of weeks ago I visited two tree island in south Essex, after hearing how great it was from local birders. I does have short eared owls in winter, but I saw a few waders, not cloe enough for a decent photo and the light wasn't great. I was about to head back to the car when I spotted acouple of this beautiesWheatears.

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London wetland centre

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Following on from my recent posts, here are the rest of the photos from my visit to the London Wetland centre. The centre has a large area of enclosures with water birds from around the world. The main enclosure had some long tailed ducks

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Martins Haven - dolphins and birds

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Well I've finish my photos taken on Skomer, and this post is what we saw after we left the island that day. Leaving the island on the boat we got lucky and saw a small pod of common dolphins :DI was told later by a member of staff at lockley lodge, that this a rare sight from the skomer ferry, and she had never seen dolphins from the boat!

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Cygent riding on its parents back - I challenge you to not go awwww...

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On saturday, after visiting Wake Valley Pond, I popped into Raphaels Park, and I so glad I did, because I was greeted with this sight

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Otter and Owl Sanctuary birds

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Here are the first batch of photos from the visit to the Otter and Owl Sanctuary in the New Forest. They have a number of bird feeders (less than last time though) and the first bird of note was a nuthatch

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Ingrebourne valley birds

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Carrying on from the adders yesterday, I also managed a few bird photos. In the morning light some greylag geese posed

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