It was third time lucky today as I stopped off at Sopley and finally managed to connect with the drake Green-winged Teal. I parked at the crematorium and with nowhere near the number of birds on the water as had been present earlier in the week I walked down the road about a hundred metres and 'scoped the floods, and struck lucky pretty much straightaway as the Green-winged Teal swam along in the company of a few Eurasian Teal.
There were far fewer Black-tailed Godwits and Lapwing present today, but still lots of wildfowl including the pair of Goosander amongst loads of Wigeon, Shoveler and Pintail. I also added another year tick with a couple of Greylag Geese present on a distant bank, and then it was back in the car and off home after a good few days in south-east Dorset.
Year list for 2014 now at 134 species.
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