Tag: slimbridge
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Water Rail
Water Rails are shy birds, and I was delighted to see one emerge from the reedbeds and cautiously dig around for breakfast… Not the first time of seeing for me, but this time it came right out and had a swim in the very flooded wetlands around Slimbridge WWT. It looks very diffferent in swim…
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Bewick 1 Mute 0
I don’t know if it’s the heat, the time of year, a game, or what one Mute Swan said about a Bewick’s wife… but today at Slimbridge there were snapping attacks from several Bewicks on Mute Swans. Remember, the Mutes are quite a bit larger. All the swans were rolling about in the water and…
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Crane in flight
Taken today at WWT Slimbridge, through grubby double glazing. Eurasian Cranes were almost made extinct and were locally extinct, but The Great Crane Project is gently re-establishing this wonderful bird in the west country. This is one of a pair of birds that was built a nest at the far end of WWT Slimbridge‘s lagoon…
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