SLIMBRIDGE - Part One

A 07:00 start to our 2 hour drive to begin the Away Day to the

an area holding an outstanding Water Fowl Collection that slaps you in the face even before getting

through the turnstile with both

BEWICK'S SWAN
and

WHOOPER SWAN

buzzing around overhead. Ducks, Geese, Swans and many other family groups are represented so we are not going to pretend to remember knowing them all, particularly the foreigners, the grey matter having disappeared years ago but we will do our best!

As an example of this we have no recollection of the

species name of this Goose

and of course, at the time of writing, not even the help of our companion and mentor on the day Dave to lean on.
More familiar were the likes of

LAPWING

hundred of them along with

PINTAIL
and

SHELDUCK
and of equal note were the eye-catching

POLLARDED WILLOW and his DAVESHIP
and at great distance a

COMMON CRANE

COMMON BUZZARD
being robed of its prey by a
MAGPIE

BRENT GEESE
on the floodplain and distantly the
RIVER SEVERN

and finally for

Part One

REDSHANK