Monday, 2 January 2017

New year

Spent the day out in the field today, did a kind of new year bird race type count but obviously a day late. Nice bright day albeit chilly, and totaled 81 species. Enjoyable.
Common sandpiper and a jack snipe probably the highlights.






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