Sunday, 13 November 2011

BEWICK'S SWANS and DARK-BELLIED BRENT at Wilstone







SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

Continuing very unseasonally mild (17 degrees C) with long bright periods and light SE winds......

WILSTONE RESERVOIR, TRING (HERTS)

Undoubted highlight today were a herd of 10 BEWICK'S SWANS (7 adults, 3 juveniles) which arrived from the east over College Lake (Paul Reed) before eventually settling close to the Drayton Bank on Wilstone at 0945 hours (Steve Rodwell et al). Dave Bilcock and I managed to see them shortly later, all 10 still present at 1015 hours. In fact, Ian Bennell and Dave Hutchinson saw them much later, DH obtaining the nice images above....

Otherwise, it was the same as yesterday, with the juvenile DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE still feeding in the grass field just west of Rushy Meadow

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