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A Heavy Load

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The Tuesday session was cancelled because of heavy rain.  Hopefully, they will be able to catch up on Tuesday when everyone else is enjoying half-term.  The Wednesday and Thursday sessions went to Kilnsea, and confined their observing largely to the triangle area.   Ring Ouzel   Brent Geese (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart  Ditto  Brent Geese (c) 2017 Tony Robinson  Same birds? different camera, and processing  Brent Geese The biggest surprise on Wednesday morning was the heavy kill a Kestrel was carrying.  It was only on examining our photographs that we discovered it was a Redwing!   Kestrel & Heavy Kill  (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart  Ditto  Ditto  Redwing  Redwings Redwing (c) 2017 Dick Watson   Ditto Another surprise were the two Bearded Tits, which flew north from the Canal Zone. Bearded Tits  Ditto  Ditto Curlew  Curlew and Bar-tailed Godwit silhouettes (c) 2017 Dick Wat...