I've been busy all week and not had a chance to get out birding, but I enjoyed last weekend helping out down at the Slimbridge Festival of Birds. It's an annual festival, that's always well put together, well attended and is a great oppurtunity for WWT staff and volunteers to come together and show lots of people lots of birds. I presented my talk 'Birding the Ribble Coast & Wetlands' on both days and spent the rest of the time heping out showing birds to visitors; no great hardship with that! I really enjoyed spending a bit of time with some good friends and it was ace having sunshine on Sunday. Birding highlights were a couple of Bitterns, three Tundra Bean Geese (two adults and a 1st winter), 216 Eurasian White-fronted Geese, 200 plus Bewick's swans and a the usual Dumble and Tack Piece waterfowl show. A great place for some winter birding, if you haven't been this winter get yourself down there soon before the White-fronts and Bewick's start to head back over the North Sea.....
One of the Slimbridge Bitterns. 27/01/13
Bewick's Swan on the Rushy Pen, Slimbridge. 27/01/13
Treecreeper, Slimbridge. 27/01/13
Rainbow over the Tack piece, Slimbridge. 27/01/13
Two Tundra Bean Geese with Eurasian White-fronted Geese at Slimbridge. 27/01/13
Drake Aythya hybrid, probably Ferruginous Duck x Pochard, Slimbridge. 27/01/13
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