Tuesday 10 November 2009

A quick visit to Chew Valley Lake

I spent a few enjoyable hours at Chew Valley Lake last Saturday while the wife did some retail therapy in Bath. It's the first time in 17 years since I was here last and the quality of birds hasn't diminished. The images below were taken at fairly close range. It was a pity that the Water Pipits and Smew were out of range but the birds below made up for it.






6 comments:

  1. Nice pictures of the Kingfisher Steve

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  2. Great looking Shots Steve,your Goossander is my favourite.
    John.

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  3. Nice to bump into you again Steve...it's been a while! Thanks for putting Alan Bundy & myself onto the redhead Smew. Apart from all the good birds at Chew, we managed to 'refind' Great Grey Shrike on the Mendips, cracking views of 3 Glossy Ibis at Catcott & a drake Green-winged Teal at Greylake....Somerset birding at it's best!

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  4. Cheers Dave - it was good to catch up with you and Alan. I was quite surprised how many faces I recognised from the past. It sounds like you had a top day. Let me know when you are coming down to Cornwall next. Cheers. Steve.

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  5. Steve, excellent shots the Kingfisher in flight is my favourite

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  6. Great shots Steve really like the KF flght shot.

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