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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Slimbridge WWT sightings- Humbug's back

After a few days in France I arrived back at home at 2am in the morning and started checking any interesting sightings which I may have missed due to Britain faced with remnants of a hurricane from the America.


My Slimbridge Sightings
 
 

  • 30+ teal
  • 100+ wigeon
  • 10+ pintail
  • 20+ pochard
  • 20 white fronted geese
  • 50+ Feral banacle geese
  • A few migrant chaffinches (all females)
  • 10+ probable migrant great tits
  • 5 cormorants
  • A mistle thrush
  • 100+ lapwing
  • 10+ curlew
  • A buzzard
  • 1 POCHARD+ FERRUGINOUS DUCK hybrid
  • 8 COMMON CRANES- 7 from the GCP (Great Crane Project and the wild individual)
  • 1 BEWICK SWAN- Humbug has arrived, yet again, first to Slimbridge this year. 2 bewicks arrived firstly at Blagdon Lake and 7 landed on Northwick Warth as they had overshot Slimbridge. The 7 stayed at the warth for less than an hour before flying to Chew Valley Lake where they stayed for a few days. After, they flew to Slimbridge on the 27th but have disappeared leaving Humbug. Where have they gone? They may come to roost at Slimbridge but I haven't seen any reports of them around. Humbug is special as she has been the first Bewick Swan to arrive back at Slimbridge  for three years now and luckily for me I saw her today and last year. In fact, she was the first Bewick swan to arrive in Britain last year. 

Humbug 2012 (Above)
                                                                                                                                                       


29/10/13 Mega rare birds in Britain today.

  • Lesser Kestrel- Devon
  • Whites thrush- Scilly
  • American Robin- Scilly
  • Cape May Warbler (Second ever for Britain)- Shetland
  • Hermit thrush- Cornwall
  • Yellow rumped warbler (Myrtle warbler)- Galway
  • Laughing dove (4th ever for Britain)- Highland
Birds I missed nearby:
  • 3 leach's petrels- Severn beach
  • 1 storm petrel- Severn beach
  • Great skua- Severn Beach
  • Gannet- Severn beach
  • Gannet- SARA/ Sharpness
  • Guillemot- Weston Super Mere

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