A Cotswold Year - Charting the seasons in the South Cotswolds


Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Herring Gulls "dancing" and eating worms


We often see buzzards stamping on the ground to bring worms to the surface to eat so we were interested to see these herring gulls engaged in the same activity when we were at WWT Slimbridge recently. Someone described it as dancing!
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http://youtu.be/Vd0F6tSHXpo

Thursday, 19 February 2015

Pintail

One of our most elegant winter visting ducks in our area, the Northern Pintail will soon leave for its breeding grounds in Northern Europe.