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  • Yellow and Black

    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 21:40 Author: Tim
    A good day today for new species.  Alerts put out on the SOS message board indicated the possibility of a yellow-browed warbler showing well near Westhay NNR and a black-throated diver at Cheddar reservoir.  Also on offer were a red-crested pochard and ...

  • Birds on Ice

    Created: Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:17 Author: Tim
    Last time there was a cold snap and ponds froze over, I admired other people's photographs and stayed in the warm.  With a sunny weekend ahead and some time to spare, I got out and about and vsited Greylake on Saturday and Catcott Lows followed by a retu...

  • Snow Buntings at Catsford Common

    Created: Sunday, 06 December 2009 19:06 Author: Tim
    I had been to Stolford just a few days earlier and not known that there were snow bunting about.  I've only photographed them in large flocks before on the Lincolnshire coast and was keen to get some individual and more detailed shots.  This time, armed...

  • Goosander at Cheddar

    Created: Saturday, 05 December 2009 15:01 Author: Tim
    Having seen the report of goosander at Cheddar reservoiir on the SOS message board, I was delighted to find a pair of them when I went for a look this morning.  The male was seemingly a little bolder than the female and I managed a rather indifferent pho...

  • From Wagtails to Starlings

    Created: Wednesday, 02 December 2009 18:00 Author: Tim
    Another day of dodging the rain - what the BBC weatherman optimistically calls 'sunny intervals'.  Today I headed off for Hawkridge reservoir to try to see the previously advertised female red-crested pochard.  Unfortunately no joy there so I headed to ...