Weekend.........

7 Jan - Quite a productive weekend, another look at Slimbridge and the Jack Snipe seen but typically elusive as is the norm with this cryptic species. Also a flock of Curlew on the Tack Piece. Good views of Short-eared Owls in the Cotswolds on a calm afternoon, with 3 birds hunting in excellent light and also circling high uttering their distinctive barking calls. A flock of Golden Plover also circling the Cotswolds. In CWP east, I went to see the “other” GN Diver, on pit 126, also here 2 Green Sandpipers. A Peregrine flew purposefully over pit 132 and a Great White Egret fishing at Roundhouse Quarry. The celebrity Jack Snipe at WWT was fittingly my 100th species in the UK for 2019......