Very quiet at Whelford Pools today, cloudy and rather a damp autumn day. Birds on the lake included cormorants, mute swans, mallards and tufted ducks, others seen were robin, bluetit, several goldfinches and a flock of redwings gorging on berries.
COATE WATER ON ANOTHER COLD DAY
Today it was -4 degrees when I left home to visit Coate Water, a country park just outside Swindon. The lake was pretty much frozen, with sw...
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I spotted my first small tortoiseshell butterfly of the year today, sunning itself on my drive just after I arrived home at lunch time; a re... -
With only a small number of purple herons visiting the UK each year, I thought I'd revisit Whelford pools to see the juvenile bird once ... -
A few weeks ago someone showed me some photos of bearded tits that they'd taken at Westhay Moor reserve in Somerset, and I thought I...
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