My Slimbridge WWT Sightings today

The birds included:

                                                                 Male sparrowhawk

                                                                             Curlew

                                                     Black tailed godwit in winter plumage

                                                                       Wigeon

                                                             Little grebe in winter plumage

                                                          Lapwings and a few golden plover

                                                      Great crested grebe in winter plumage

                                    Herring gull in winter plumage behind black headed gull

                                           Cormarant at south lake with a m+ f shovelers

                                                                      Common gull

4 cormarants, 1 grey heron, 1 morhen, 

3 greylag geese and a herring gull

• 1 buzzard
• 1 Prigrene
• 1 male sparrowhawk
• 2 robins
• 5 chaffinches
• 6 blue tits
• 6 great tits
• 1 green finch
• 6 cormarant- 1 at South lake, 4 at the rushy and 1 flew over the Knott hide
• 1 little grebe- at the Tack piece
• 1 great crested grebe at South lake
• 20+ canada geese
• 15+ greylag geese
• 40+ pintail- Rushy
• 40+ pochard- Rushy
• 40+ morhens
• 100+ mallards
• 40+ wigeon
• 200+ lapwings
• 200+ golden plovers
• 17 black tailed godwits
• 40+ curlew
• 15 redshank
• 200+ jackdaws
• 100+ wood pigeons
• 300+ black headed gulls
• 50+ herring gulls
• 5 long tailed tits
• 1 little egret
• 1 grey heron
• 30+ shovelers
• 40+ redwing
• Several common gulls
• 4 magpies
• 30+ starlings

Other interesting news

• 1 TORTOISESHELL BUTTERFLY-  Rare for November