January 31, 2017 archive

Summary January 2017

 

Total UK Species in January : 85

New “Year Ticks” in January : 85

New “Life Ticks” in January : 0

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Pennington Flash : 31 January 2017


  The fist birding group date we could make in January was to Pennington Flash on the last day of the month. It started off a little wet but soon dried up. It wasn’t even all that windy ! The main attractions were the possibility of seeing the Long-tailed Duck we had seen last year and also some Scaup. Not only did we get both these birds but we also got a fair range of other birds including “nine year ticks”

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