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BRIAN SUMNER.
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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Monday, October 20, 2025

If you don't like Teal, look away now. Ogden.

 

                                        2 of 6 Tufted

                                        18 Teal present

                                    Goosander re-appeared
                                            Teal
                                        Single Heron
                                    Alive with Teal








Another dank morning with thick fog on the tops and in the valleys, but luckily, Ogden was sandwiched in between leaving it dark and misty with light rain throughout on a light SE>1 at 9 degrees. By 0930hrs the rain ceased and the fog rolled in making it game over.
     Teal were the highlight of the morning with a minimum of 18 present, some out in the middle of the water whilst others were feeding on the waterside weeds along with a high count of Mallard and Tufted duck, the latter now up to 6. 
    The single Goosander had returned along with a Cormorant but only a dozen Black Headed gull on the water.
   The east bank trees were alive with Long Tailed Tits, Chaffinch and Goldfinch along with a count of 12 Blackbirds but no continentals.
     A sunshine and cloudy morning on a moderate WSW at 9 degrees. Visibility given as poor.
BS