20th January  -  West Rise Marsh

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Good for gulls this afternoon with single CASPIAN and YELLOW-LEGGEDS dropping in for a brief bath before flying back off towards the coast. There were even more SHOVELER today with at least 210 loafing around, and a solitary REDWING was on site by the bee hives. 

 

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7th January  -  West Rise Marsh

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As usual for early January in a bit of a phase...not much

enthusiasm to go birding although I did manage a short trip

to the marsh this afternoon. This unusually confiding 

KINGFISHER was along one of the sewers and there were

a couple of WATER PIPITS, 5 COMMON GULLS, and a

good number of SHOVELER (at least a hundred).  

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