SLIMBRIDGE - Part II

 

A GREAT HELP to the DAY

BARNACLE GEESE

GRAZING

GOLDENEYE

GOLDENEYE MALE

with a Second BUZZARD feeding.

The rather dainty,

delightful and

scarce (male)

SMEW

AMERICAN FLAMINGO's

GOLDENEYE
(male and

female at closer quarters)

CUT BACK TO THE QUICK

EMPEROR GEESE
close up with 

COOT

and a male even closer.

and in an effort not to get bogged down we will also make a great start to the 

YEAR LISTs

 with 2 x Moths on the first day of the Mothing Year and despite a single digit temperature with firstly not even in the trap a single

MOTTLED UMBER

clinging to one of the trap baffles.

WINTER MOTH
clinging to an egg tray and a fist-full of

DOR BEETLEs
Nothing new it that but a great start never the less!
While the first Bird of the Year was betrayed by its 'honking' a

GREYLAG GOOSE
seen through the gloom as transiting the River Stour to the west.

Further to that a lone

ROBIN
the only representative of what may be classed as a Dawn Chorus with

GREY HERON

and

BLACK_HEADED GULL
on the Main Pond

BLACKBIRD

and finally on the subject for now a tennis court

PIED WAGTAIL