Wednesday 20 May 2009

EURASIAN SPOONBILL at College Lake on 16 May

At ca.09:45 Paul discovered a first-summer SPOONBILL circling above the marsh at College Lake, which gradually gained height and headed off towards the Beacon only to come back again shortly after. I managed to get to the car park in time to watch it circling fairly low over the marsh but unfortunately it didn't want to settle and eventually gained height again and was watched by Paul heading off northeast. The bird was probably present for only 15 mins and another excellent and well deserved bird discoved by Paul at College.

This was presumably the bird seen at Port Meadow, Oxford, briefly on 15 May

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