Friday, 15 December 2023

MID- DECEMBER AT SLIMBRIDGE

  I spent a couple of hours at a rather overcast Slimbridge wetlands Centre today. Highlights were two water rail feeding close to the Willow Hide and the newly arrived Bewicks swans on the Rushy Pen. 











AN EARLY EMPEROR AT BERNWOOD FOREST

  Yesterday a local birder reported he'd seen one of the first purple emperors of the year at Bernwood Forest in Oxfordshire. They are u...