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| Wet and windy again!! |
What is with Wednesdays and wet and windy weather lately? Throughout January this year, there has only been one relatively nice Wednesday morning at Strumpshaw so far. The rest have been either been raining, blowing a gale or both! This morning has been the latter, though most of the rain has came around lunch time with a short, but torrential downpour. For the most part, however, it has been rather blowy and mild. Unfortunately, this bad weather did mean that there wasn't an awful lot to see yet again. There was one surprising sighting, though, in the form of a brimstone butterfly fluttering by some snowdrops in front of Reception Hide briefly before the heavy rains arrived! It must be out of it's mind!
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| Snowdrops |
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| Coot |
Though the majority of the wildlife were wisely sheltering from the strong wind and rain, I did manage to see a flock of bullfinches in the wood, but because of the bad weather, they were not hanging around for a photo today. From Reception Hide, where I spent most of my time at this morning, about 6 marsh harriers were in the air at once, two of which with green tags on their wings. I also saw a sparrowhawk and the usual rafts of coots, mallards and gadwall, which were in good numbers this week and included a wigeon and a few flocks of teal visiting occasionally as well as a pair of mute swans, greylags and Cobber the black swan. I do hope its a nicer Wednesday next week. I'm getting sick of wind and rain!
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| Mallards and Gadwall |
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| Mallards |
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| Gadwall |
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| Wigeon |
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| Marsh Harriers |
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