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 Not a lot to report this morning at a very heavily flooded Bowling Green Marsh . But after a bit of a search up to 6 Common Snipe showed very well .

Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ) . Bowling Green Marsh . Topsham . Devon

 

Killdeer

After a wait of  over 40 years I finally added Killdeer to my British list with a bird seen today at Ripley Farm Reservoir in Hampshire . I have managed to see a few of them in America before but it doesn`t beat getting one on home soil 😀 . Also seen was an adult Little Gull .

We also saw on a trip around Hampshire an American Great-Tailed Grackle at Hanbury but we will have to wait and see if it ever gets added to the British list .

Our last stop was at Titchfield where we saw a Glossy Ibis and a fly over Red Kite , the end to a great days birding .  

Killdeer ( Charadrius vociferus ) . Ripley . Hampshire

 

 

Little Gull ( Hydrocoloeus minutus ) . Ripley . Hampshire

 

Great-Tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus mexicanus ) . Hanbury . Hampshire