Trip reports
Field Trip - Ham Wall and Shapwick Heath
Sunday, 17 June 2007
Location 2 :- Shapwick Heath - English Nature Reserve
Attendance Total :- 16 People
Weather :- A pleasant sunny day 20°C.
Bird Sightings Total :- 48
Star bird of the day :- Bittern
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Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Cormorant
Common Bittern
Little Egret
Grey Heron
Mute Swan
Gadwall
Mallard
Pochard
Tufted Duck
Sparrowhawk
Common Buzzard
Hobby
Water Rail
Moorhen
Coot
Lapwing
Black-tailed Godwit
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Common Tern
Wood Pigeon
Cuckoo
Common Swift
Common Kingfisher
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Swallow
House Martin
Meadow Pipit
Robin
Blackbird
Cetti's Warbler
Reed Warbler
Common Whitethroat
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Bearded Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Starling
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Reed Bunting
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Total Bird Sightings 2006/2007 Season so far :- 101
Notes
Many thanks to John Crispin, RSPB volunteer, for showing us around this special reserve. (We did find him a Bittern which was the first time one had been seen on the reserve at this time of year).