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Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool : 15th October 2013

Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool : 15th October 2013

Although we had just got back from holiday in Scotland, I was still keen to go to the birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my notebook so have to recall the birds from memory. We took the right hand path from the main road and there were a number of birds around including Long-tailed Tits and throughout the site there were a lot of Jays busy to-ing and fro-ing collecting and storing acorns by their thousands. From the first hide overlooking the Flash we could see around a dozen Snipe and in amongst them there was a single Golden Plover.

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