Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 10th January 2012
This was the first day of the new birding group term and it started with a regular of the group – Pennington Flash. Unusually for the time of year, the weather was really quite mild and even the usual wind tunnel effect in “Horrock’s hide” was ameliorated by the mild weather ; last year at this time it was a different story. The birding was good all round with sightings of Goldeneye (male female and juvenile) and also Goosander and,more usually, Tufted Duck. At the Tom Edmonson hide there were lots of Teal but, particularly pleasing, there were three (at least) Snipe sitting on the left hand bank just behind the reeds.