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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith Dickinson" data-source="post: 1195815" data-attributes="member: 10828">Down at Swillington Ings this afternoon, the first time ever that my car has been the only one in the car park. Had a walk down to the new outflow in the hope of seeing a garganey .... no such luck! Did manage to find quite a few little grebe down there. Met up with another chap and showed him a green woodpecker just as it was yaffling, he'd heard the sound before but didn't realise it was the woodie making it. A couple of avocet dropping onto Astley Lake was a decent site tick for me, even though I'm not their greatest fan.List of 39 species was pretty good for a couple of hours on a hot afternoon.</blockquote>