A quick potter round Pennington Flash, which is still showing signs of last week's flooding.
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| The view from the F.W. Horrocks Hide. The spit is completely underwater still. |
The pair of Egyptian geese greeted me at the car park where they scrabbled with the swans and geese for the bird food being scattered by the kids. It takes the art out of finding them but it gives a good chance to appreciate the subtleties in the sandy brown plumage.
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| Egyptian goose, Pennington Flash |
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| Egyptian goose, Pennington Flash |
A second calendar year yellow legged gull out on the flash was the first hint of Autumn but there were plenty enough common terns about to still be able to pretend it's Summer.
There was a lot of gadwall about in a bewildering range of plumages from nearly full-grown ducklings to adult females and drakes in various stages of eclipse. A couple of mallard families included very young ducklings.
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| Male gadwall, Pennington Flash |
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| Male gadwall, Pennington Flash |
The ground outside the Bunting Hide was still underwater.
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| The view from the Bunting Hide |
This meant that the stock doves had to come in a bit closer than usual.
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| Stock dove, Pennington Flash |
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| Stock dove, Pennington Flash |
Nice to see a juvenile nuthatch on the feeders.
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| Juvenile nuthatch |
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