A most successful year, adding many new species to the parish list. As far as birds ; 13 new species: kingfisher, teal, little grebe, mute swan, yellow wagtail, coot, wheatear, little egret, tufted duck, spotted flycatcher, mandarin, ringed plover and turtle dove. All good birds.
small copper, painted lady, clouded yellow an purple hairstreak were new butterflies, whilst emperor and black tailed skimmers were added to the dragonfly list.
All pleasing records and a few possibles for 2010:
birds: lesser spotted woodpecker, greylag goose, several duck sp, reed warbler
butterflies: white letter hairstreak
Be interesting to see what does occur and if the mud continues to show at the lagoon then the possibility of a migratory wader dropping in is feasible. In this case, almost anything is possible, from dunlin to godwits.
Happy New Year to all readers.
Happy New Year to all readers.
Above is one of my favourite photos from 2009, a grey partridge defending its young
on a footpath south of the Ford
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