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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emma" data-source="post: 1668508" data-attributes="member: 20257">Week 2!!Pera Marsh ~ Everday!!Pera Marsh has always been one of our favourite places to visit and as it was literally on our doorstep from where we were staying we visited the area everyday! The regulars seen out on the lagoon each day were Black Winged Stilt, Avocet, White Stork, Spoonbill, Little Egret, Purple Gallinulle, Coot, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Lapwing, Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, Shoveler, Mallard, Teal, Moorhen, Cormorants, BH Gulls and LBB Gulls, also Marsh Harrier and Kestrel hawking the lagoon and scrub areas and Cattle Egret feeding in the scrub areas and as usual being very flighty. We had sightings of Little Owl on 3 of the 6 days and on the 2nd Dec a radio tagged Peregrine went over the lagoon, also a kind gentleman from Northumbria pointed out a Med Gull on the water to us!  We also went to the beach near Carlos bar and had good views of Gannets and Cormorants over the sea! My highlights over my weeks stay are as follows: 1.12.09 An early morning visit was planned in order to see the birds before they all headed off to their feeding areas! On the drive down we had our first sighting of a Little Owl at Pera Marsh, he/she was perched right at the top of an Olive tree enjoying the early morning sunshine! We then had a quick view of a Peregrine before we got down to the lagoon where the normal waterfowl were out and about! On our way our we scanned the bushes just in case there was a shrike about as my Mum and Dad had seen one in the previous week but I have never seen one at all until now! We spotted the Southern Grey Shrike in the far distance and luckily it came a lot closer to the car and I managed a record photograph of it, don’t know how I managed this with shaky hands!!</blockquote>

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