Friday 28 September 2012

Fleet Pond Autumn Bird Walk - A Great Success!!!

We had a great turn out on Saturday for a stroll around Fleet pond looking out for our feathered friends. We started off the walk with a ringing demonstration by our local bird ringer Gary Clewley, who explained why ringing is important and we got to see 2 great tits (Parus major) close up.
Next we wandered over to sandy bay looking at birds along the way, we had a great view of a kingfisher which perched on heron island and caught a fish for everyone to see.
We saw lots of birds along the way including treecreeper, nuthatch, teal, siskin and chiffchaffs. We finished off the walk by visiting Gary again and he had an adult male siskin which was great to see up close as not everyone had good views previously.
Siskin (photo below) are winter visitors and often seen on the alder catkins around the pond.

For more information about our future guided walks please visit our website
www.threesixfive.org.uk/countryside/guided-walks

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