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The Wick Country Park birds

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A week ago Iw as at the Wick Country Park in Wickford. There wasn't much about, but the resident swans and geese. I got a few photos of the swans, even though the light was rubbish

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Hatchet pond birds and sundew

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In my last post on my visit to the New forest I'll cover what I saw at Hatchet pond, the largest body of water in the national park. In the car park a robin was singing from the gorse

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Oare marshes - waders

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Last month on a visit to Oare Marshes, the waders were on show. The were quite a few ringed plovers

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Oare marshes - my first ever yellow wagtails

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Last weekend I went to Oare Marshes, where they currently have some polish ponies grazing the marshesThst the swale bridge in the background

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Gulls of Skomer

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I saw 4 species of gull while on Skomer. The first species we had a good view of was the lesser black backed gull. A pair were courting each other not far from the path soon after we started walking along the cliff

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Strumpshaw fen: birds and other wildlife

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Following on from my previous two posts, there were butterflies other than swallowtails at strumpshaw. In the Doctor's garden I photogrpahed a few small tortoiseshells with my fz7 while waiting for the swallowtails to arrive

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Oare marshes: Sedge Warblers and cows

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Three weekwends ago I headed to Oare Marshes with John to see if there was anything about. There were some swallows and martins and a some small birds about, he most notable, or at least most cooperative of which was a sedge warbler, which was so busy singing it aollowed us to get reasonably close

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Wildlife in Langstone harbour and Southsea seafront

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A month ago I was in Portsmouth, so went on a walk looking for wildlife with my friend Richard. At the southern end of Langstone Harbour we came across a group of birds, which included a flock of redshanks

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Ingrebourne valley - birds and reptiles

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A couple of weeks ago I got early one morning to go looking for adders. The morning started well with a reed bunting

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black headed gull nesting colony

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Anotehr video, this time a clip of the nesting colony of black headed gulls on the left hand side of the island the avocet in the previous video was nesting on.