30 Dec 22

RSPB Radipole Lake

It was another shopping trip into Weymouth followed by a walk around the Visitors Centre and Swannery Car Park.

Main highlights were a very mobile Kingfisher flying up and down the lake to the south of the visitors Centre and several Bearded Tits calling from the phragmites. Other than that there wasn't much else as the high water level had covered the islands and turned the water a muddy brown.

Birds Recorded:
Cormorant
Mute Swan
Mallard
Teal
Tufted Duck
Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull
1 Common Gull
Wood Pigeon
1 Kingfisher
Robin
Blackbird
Bearded Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
House Sparrow
Chaffinch

One of several Cormorants sat on the posts in the lake.

Teal

An adult winter Black-headed Gull

An adult Black-headed Gull with a "Summer" black head. It's either just moulted into its breeding colours or is in the process of losing that black head. I haven't a clue

An adult Herring Gull.

And a 1st winter Herring Gull.

Another adult Herring Gull sporting a.........

........metal leg ring...........


................. GC23012

On the left a Common Gull and on the right a 1st winter Black-headed Gull

Ted:

Ted stretching his legs