Wednesday 26 December 2007

Smew and a Bewick's Swan


26 Dec - a fine fairly mild Boxing Day. A quick check on Swillbrook at CWP gave good views of a drake and 4 redhead Smew on pit 46, but light too poor for photography. A Water Rail also heard there.
A drive over to the upper Thames in Oxfordshire then gave a county tick for Oxon, a Bewick's Swan with the Mute Swan flock at Chimney. I managed a distant record shot. A Peregrine cruised west, and a single Snipe flew over calling.

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