It was another trip to Weymouth today and on the way back I stopped off at Radipole Park (Next to the Weymouth Tennis Courts) for a look across the main lake at RSPB Radipole.
As I got out of the car, the first bird I heard was a Coal Tit calling from the conifers in the park grounds.
On the flooded lake there were very few birds seen, but I did hear several Bearded Tits in the reedbeds across the otherside of the water.
In the car park was the usual gathering of Herring Gulls and Black-headed Gulls with one 1st Winter Herring Gull having a right go at other Herring Gulls.
Birds Recorded:
1 Little Grebe
1 Cormorant
4 Mute Swan
1 Shoveler
Tufted Duck
Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull
Cetti's Warbler
Bearded Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Reed Bunting
A Little Grebe fishing in the main lake.
Two pairs of Mute Swans with the pair to the right, unhappy with the two on the left. Well the cob is!!
A drake Shoveler hiding in the reedbeds.
This 1st Winter Herring Gull is about to.........
.......dive into the lake.
This 1st Winter Herring Gull was constantly grabbing the wing-tips of other Herring Gulls in the Swannery Car park.
The same 1st Winter Herring Gull as in the video above, grabbing the wing-tips of another adult Herring Gull.
And the same Herring Gull having a go at another 1st Winter individual.
General Shots:
A very flooded Radipole Lake.