Slimbridge and CWP

15 Feb - A couple of hours at Slimbridge and CWP - sunny but windy weather, and good views of the Tundra Bean Goose with the Whitefronts from the Holden Tower, plus all the usual birds - Bewick's Swans, wildfowl, and thousands of waders including large flocks of Golden Plover, Lapwing and Dunlin, with Black-tailed Godwit, Redshanks, Curlew and a Little Stint. No sign of the Glaucous Gull on the low tide. Photos JM - Pochard (2), Tufted Duck (3), Shoveler (4), Teal (5), Shleduck (6). At CWP, the immature male Red-breasted Merganser (7) still present, with a drake and 2 redhead Smew. And Redwings still much in evidence about the village (1).