Wednesday 17 February 2016

Birding Somerset

Today a group of us went up to do some birding in Somerset but what a day we picked as it poured with rain all day , our first stop was at Glastonbury Heath to look for a male Ring-Necked Duck and we soon found it in with 40+ Tufted Duck , we also saw a Great Crested Grebe , a Common Kingfisher and a Cetti`s Warbler was heard on call .
On then to the Curry Moor area on the Somerset Levels to look for some reported Whooper Swan but at first we couldn't find them but we did see 2 Jack Snipe and a Common Snipe , we then went to Swell Wood where we looked out over the levels again and 2 Common Crane were picked up , then we went back to Curry Moor for another look and this time we found 10 Whooper Swan ! so in the end it was not a bad day even if we did get soaked .

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