Saturday 7 May 2011

Bough Beech with Denis

Common Tern catching a snack!

 Pair of Common Terns

 Mallard drake

 Lapwing

 Common Tern

 Denis

 Not the best but it is a Cuckoo at the top of tree!

Canada Goose checking us out!

I met Denis at Bough Beech at 9.00am today and apart from a small shower of rain we had a 105mins of birding, our list is as follows:

COMMON TERN
GREAT CRESTED GREBE
MALLARD
COOT
CHIFFCHAFF
BLACK HEADED GULL
BLUE TIT
CORMORANT
GREY HERON
MUTE SWAN
SHELDUCK
CARRION CROW
GREAT TIT
LONG TAILED TIT
PIED WAGTAIL
GREYLAG GEESE
SWALLOW
MOORHEN
CANADA GEESE
LAPWING
CUCKOO
TUFTED DUCK
WOOD PIGEON
GADWALL
BLACKBIRD

A TOTAL OF 25 SPECIES.

4 comments:

  1. Its hard to get near the Cuckoo Phil! Keep at it though mate :-)

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  2. Phil ,
    You did well to get that close to a Cuckoo out in the open .
    By the way , you were 'checked out' by a Canada Goose , not Greylag .

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  3. thanks for pointing that out Greenie, have ammended now

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  4. Hi Phil, looks like you had a good return for your 105 mins, managing to spot the Cuckoo is always a bonus!

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