Friday, 10 April 2009

day 3 of london holiday 7 april

marsh frogs-very big
snipe-sat right infront of the hide
redhsank
tufted duck
sand martins
egyptian geese
dabchick
great crested grebe
ring necked parakeet
willow warbler
got half way through the day without event. howver i underestimated what my evil camera could do. even though i spent £20 on a memory card, half way through the day for no reason whatsever the lense broke. £150 worth of equipment refused to work.
what i saw today at the london wetland ceter was
4 dabchick
3 great crested grebe
5 cormorant
6 grey heron (in a line)
5 mute swan
9 greylag goose
15 canada goose
2 egyptian geese
50 mallard
4 gadwall
10 shoveler
1 wigeon
13 pochards
54 tufted ducks
1 kestrel
100 moorhen
100 coot
13 lapwings
7 redshank
1 snipe
23 herring
1 greater black backed gull
6,000,000,000,000,00,00 woodpigeons
7 ring necked parakeets
100 sand martins
1 willow warblers
2 chiffchaff ( although probably the same bird)
1 water vole was looking for one in the area where they are supposed to be, when suddenly the warden shouted vole. we all turned round an i just saw its bum and the v shaped mark it left. techincally it was a vole but i could have been better.

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