Davyslocker
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Hi!
This is very late, due to my needing to refind how to post.
Walked around the little nature reserve lake alongside the canal at Fradley Junction, 3pm 12thMarch. People with expensive cameras taking photos of Blue Tits at nesting boxes. Of the ducks slowly swimming away from being fed with bread, hey! that's not a female Malard, it's a Mandarin surely, as I had seen at Slimbridge. Back home to bird book - rather it had been a female Wood Duck. Escapee of course, but so what. Next time I went, noon on 3rd April, it was still there, so maybe still there now.
Walking back along drained Chasewater reservoir, from the heath/woodland northwest where I had gone to hear and see my first Willow Warblers of the year, a Buzzard circling noted for the day. Another: no, my first sighting any year in Staffordshire of a Red Kite, checking out the res. in a long glide little over 50ft up.
If this is successful, I'll pass on possibly interesting sightings Much earlier in future.
Dave
This is very late, due to my needing to refind how to post.
Walked around the little nature reserve lake alongside the canal at Fradley Junction, 3pm 12thMarch. People with expensive cameras taking photos of Blue Tits at nesting boxes. Of the ducks slowly swimming away from being fed with bread, hey! that's not a female Malard, it's a Mandarin surely, as I had seen at Slimbridge. Back home to bird book - rather it had been a female Wood Duck. Escapee of course, but so what. Next time I went, noon on 3rd April, it was still there, so maybe still there now.
Walking back along drained Chasewater reservoir, from the heath/woodland northwest where I had gone to hear and see my first Willow Warblers of the year, a Buzzard circling noted for the day. Another: no, my first sighting any year in Staffordshire of a Red Kite, checking out the res. in a long glide little over 50ft up.
If this is successful, I'll pass on possibly interesting sightings Much earlier in future.
Dave
