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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

A Twitcher Sidetrack

Monday 30th September

Today we took a side trip a mile or so up the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal to the RSPB nature reserve which is still being established around some old gravel pits by the River Tame.

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Gothic style footbridge over the canal by Drayton Manor PArk
Unfortunately the light has not been the best today.  The sun did peek out in the very late afternoon but by the time I had finished my cup of tea and got my shoes on the clouds were already making tracks over the sky.  I will go back again in the morning to see if I can do any better.
But here are some of the better ones from today.

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Common Darter

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Female Ruddy Darter?

Lapwing
Lapwing

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Duck in flight

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Great Crested Grebe with lunch
I think that this Grebe caught more than he could almost cope with. It took him at least 10 minutes to get it down, even andrew would have been pleased if he caught a fish this size :)

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Little Egret

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Shoveler Duck - Female

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Maybe a Stonechat?

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Common Toadflax

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Cornflower

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Evening Sky

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Wild Sweetpea

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Great Crested Grebe and young

Tuesday 1st October

I went on another nature walk this morning after sorting out another interview, this one though is via skype, so no travel costs involved just yet. So fingers crossed for this one and hope it goes better than the last one Smile
So todays' pictures …

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Gadwall

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Evening Primrose

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Fungi??


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Fungi??

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Fungi??

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Fungi??

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Grass seed head - those spiders get everywhere!

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Comma

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Fungi??

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House window

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Caterpillar of the Grey Dagger Moth

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Burst of colour

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