Thursday 6 November 2008

5 NOVEMBER 2008

STARTOP'S END RESERVOIR: 43 Cormorant.

MARSWORTH RESERVOIR: 41 Shoveler, 1 Little Owl, 1 Water Rail, 17 Long-tailed Tits including several ringed birds (interestingly a similar number were around the back of my house, just over the Lower Icknield Way in Tring and not very far from the Tring Reses, which also included several ringed birds (perhaps the same birds?), and was a part of a larger tit flock around Lakeside, including 2 Coal Tits and 2 Nuthatches), several bats pm, including what I presume to be Daubenton's Bat (medium sized, flying low over the water).

WILSTONE RESERVOIR Gull Roost - large numbers of Black-headed Gulls, at least 1500, 13+ COMMON GULLS, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1 adult HERRING GULL and 1 first-winter GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. Also 1 COMMON GOLDENEYE and 1 Little Owl

STEVE RODWELL

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