Trip reports
West Sedgemoor - RSPB Reserve
Saturday, 21 January 2006
Location 2 :- Greylake - RSPB Reserve.
Attendance Total :- 34 People
Weather :- Bright and Sunny 10°C
Bird Sightings Total :- 44
Star bird of the day :- Merlin
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Cormorant
Peregrine Falcon
Goldcrest
Little Egret
Golden Plover
Long-tailed Tit
Grey Heron
Lapwing
Blue Tit
Mute Swan
Common Snipe
Great Tit
Bewick's Swan
Black-headed Gull
Common Treecreeper
Canada Goose
Stock Dove
Magpie
Wigeon
Wood Pigeon
Jackdaw
Teal
Collared Dove
Rook
Mallard
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Carrion Crow
Pintail
Skylark
Raven
Shoveler
Wren
Starling
Sparrowhawk
Robin
House Sparrow
Common Buzzard
Stonechat
Chaffinch
Common Kestrel
Blackbird
Reed Bunting
Merlin
Fieldfare
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Total Bird Sightings 2005/2006 Season so far :- 91
Notes
1/ Many thanks to RSPB Wardens - Steve Meen at West Sedgemoor
and Damon Bridge at Greylake for a great day out, showing us around these
two Somerset Levels Reserves.
2/ We saw five Raptors today with good views of a female Merlin.