New Species added to 2015 Year List in July = 3<\/p>\n
Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 150<\/p>\n
New UK Life List Birds In July= 1<\/p>\n
A quiet month in the garden. A small group of Starlings eat daily, a Wren is an ever-present feature and is nesting in the Virginia Creeper at 1st floor level in the garden opposite our back garden. A juvenile Robin was seen once as were some juvenile Blackbirds. A small number of Goldfinch visit daily but it is generally quite quiet.<\/p>\n
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The birding group has finished its term so there are no birding mornings this month except the ones we choose to do ourselves, of which we only had a few. The first of these was to\u00a0 Woolston Eyes<\/a> on the 3rd of July where we got our annual quota of Black-necked Grebes and a Ruddy Duck as a bonus. On the 10th we got another “year tick” at RSPB Old Moore<\/a> when we got excellent views of a pair of Garden Warblers, a bird we have only seen once before (at Martin Mere in 2012)<\/p>\n On the 21st of July we went to Burton Mere Wetlands<\/a> and, although we didn’t see anything really special we got lovely views of a very large flock (50) of Little Egrets and some nice Spotted Reddshanks and Dunlin.<\/p>\n