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  • Chiffchaff
    Description to come soon!
    Goldcliff Lagoons, Newport
  • Common Redstart
    Redstarts are immediately identifiable by their bright orange-red tails, which they often quiver. Breeding males look smart, with slate grey upper parts, black faces and wings, and an orange rump and chest. Females and young are duller. Redstarts 'bob' in a very robin-like manner, but spend little time at ground level. It is included on the Amber List as species with unfavourable conservation status in Europe where it is declining.
    Goldcliff NR
  • Ringed Teal
    Description to come soon!
    WWT Arundel
  • Razorbill
    Description to come soon!
    Skomer Island
  • Dunlin
    The commonest small wader found along the coast. It has a slightly down-curved bill and a distinctive black belly patch in breeding plumage. It feeds in flocks in winter, sometimes numbering thousands, roosting on nearby fields, saltmarshes and shore when the tide is high.
    Talacre
  • Great Black Backed Gull
    The king of the Atlantic waterfront, the Great Black-backed Gull is the largest gull in the world, with a powerful build and a domineering attitude. They harry other birds to steal their food and even hunt adult birds such as grebes and puffins.
    Talacre
  • Mute Swan
    Description to come soon!
    Cosmeston Lakes
  • Mute Swan
    Description to come soon!
    Pagham Harbour
  • Blue winged Teal
    The Blue winged Teal is a small dabbling duck, where its placement is no means a certainty. The coloring is remarkably similar to the Australasian Shoveler, but genetic testing shows that its nearly identical to that of the Cinnamon Teal. Occasional visitors come to the British Isles, distinct from the local Eurasian Teals and Garganey by their yellow legs and distinct white facial marking.
    WWT Slimbridge
  • Hooded Merganser
    Description to come soon!
    WWT Arundel
  • Yellow Wagtail
    The yellow wagtail is a small, graceful, yellow and green bird, with a medium-length tail and slender black legs. It spends much time walking or running on the ground. As its name implies, it wags its tail from time to time.It is a summer visitor, migrating to winter in Africa. It breeds in a variety of habitats in the UK, including arable farmland, wet pastures and upland hay meadows. Serious declines in breeding numbers accross all of these habitats place the yellow wagtail on the red list of birds of conservation concern.
    Goldcliff NR
  • Downy Woodpecker
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
  • Common Pochard
    The Common Pochard is an all-year resident here in the UK, known to breed in England, the lowlands of scotland, and now starting to breed in larger numbers in Ireland as well. This duck is superficially similar to the Redhead and the Canvasback ducks of North America.</br> This bird gathers in large numbers, frequently gathering with groups of tufted ducks. What's unique about this bird as it is known to hybridise with the Tufted Duck here in the UK.
    Newport RSPB
  • Linnet
    Description to come soon!
    Pagham Harbor
  • Wheatear
    The wheatear is a small mainly ground-dwelling bird. It hops or runs on the ground. It is blue-grey above with black wings and white below with an orange flush to the breast. It has a black cheek. In flight it shows a white rump and a black 'T' shape on its tail. It is a summer visitor and passage migrant. Birds breed mainly in western and northern Britain and western Ireland, although smaller numbers do breed in southern and eastern England. It winters in central Africa.
    Skomer Island
  • Chaffinch
    The Chaffinch is a widespread finch across Europe, Asia, and northwestern Africa, being the most populous finch in western Europe. It can be said it is one of europe's prettiest finches, with a loud and varied song to match. The Chaffinch is not migratory here in Britain, and in the winter it will form loose flocks, sometimes quite large. They are also known to mix with the visiting Bramblings during the winter as well.
    Wyllie
  • Whitethroat
    Description to come soon!
    Pagham Harbor
  • Hairy Woodpecker
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
  • Eurasian Nuthatch
    Description to come soon!
    Forest Farm NR
  • Northern Gannet
    Description to come soon!
    Scottish Seabird Centre
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01-Jan-2014 Visit to Forest Farm pics added
01-Jan-2014 Norfolk pics Added
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20-June-2013 Animals from Berwick upon Tweed & Scotland 2013 Trip Added
20-June-2013 Birds from Berwick upon Tweed & Scotland Trip Added
02-Apr-2013 Pagham Harbor 2013 Trip Added


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