April 30, 2017 archive

April 2017 Summary

April 2017 Summary
UK Species Year List to April: 129
Total UK Species in April: 92
New “Year Ticks” in April: 25
New “Life Ticks” in April: 0

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Rutland Water 30th April 2017


We started a holiday at Rutland Water where we broke up our journey to Halesworth in Suffolk. This was part of a fortnight taking in Suffolk and Norfolk but having as “bookends” stopovers that allowed us to visit Rutland Water twice – a fortnight apart. “Bookends doesn’t quite cover it as on this first visit we managed to add twelve year ticks and saw fifty-three species in total, some of which were pretty spectacular.

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