WWT Steart - 30/10/2016

 
Carl Bovis
 
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Carl Bovis
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06 November 2016 19:27
 

Yesterday (5th November) there were 2 Spoonbills, one colour-ringed.
There were also a couple of Short Eared Owls, Golden Plover flock, Black Tailed Godwits, Snipe, Curlew, Skylark plus the usual suspects.
There was what I believe to be a Ruddy Shelduck with the Shelducks too.

A distant pic on my blog here…. along with other pics from my visit;

http://carlbovisnaturephotography.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/short-eared-owls-and-spoonbills-at.html

 
Robin Morrison
 
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Robin Morrison
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31 October 2016 20:58
 

Sorry for the late posting but a general round up of activity on a lovely Sunday afternoon

3 Buzzards,
2 Kestrel, one eating a vole(?)
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Peregrine
1 Marsh Harrier (Good views from Steart Gate car park)
Egret Roost
3 GWE
2 SEOs (earlier in the afternoon I saw one SEO driven higher and higher by a Buzzard until they both ended up too high to see.
Numerous Ducks and Waders. (no wonder there is nothing at Greylake)
Large number of Dunlin coming off Bridgwater Bay and onto the reserve as the high tide approached.
Large flocks of Linnet
Flocks of Goldfinch
and so much more of interest.