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One last shot of our Red Kite sighting, before we birdlessly explored a second reserve and then - regular readers will know where we went - by this quartet if pelicans - Arundel WWT.

Avocet were lounging about the aviary...

...as were some redshank.

Originally called black backed radjah shelduck, they are now called radjah shelduck.

They used to be in the main shared pond, but are not housed solo in the waterfall area where the merganzers used to live.

Regular readers will recall this duo of Trumpeter swans.

They seemed to spot us watching them. Here are the other swan family of interest to me - the Bewicks.

So many turkeys die at thanksgiving....HERE is something we can do about it.

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This is a baby collared dove. I spotted it one day when I was about to go outside with an armful of wet laundry - which I put down and picked up my camera on sighting.

Also at home, there are families of goldfinches - seen here - and great tits feeding ravenously at he bird feeder recently - mid-late August 2022.

Liz and I went to a new place for us - Burton Mill and Chingford pond nature trail. We began at Burton Mill and I soon spotted an infoboard mentioning birdlife. Reed warblers I have seen, bitterns I have not. We saw tufted, gadwell, coot and moorhen, and Liz thought she saw a grebe....so we saw quite a few of the birds mentioned on our excursion.

There was also swan on the pond. There is a coot.

I then spotted a bird of prey...

We decided it was a red kite, after my initial rejection of buzzard. We had wandered off our original trail onto the serpents way for a short exploration past some horses and spotted it. We got closer...Liz spotted red and a forked tail, so we assumed that is what it was.

It stayed around for a few pictures.