![]() After scanning for a few minutes I managed to pickup the scaup a female showing a well defined white saddle over the forehead busy feeding in the company of a few Tufted Duck. Arriving at the hide we found it almost empty except two guys who had just refound the Lesser Scaup and kindly gave us rough direction of where to look. On route we saw Marsh Harrier, Great White Egret of note. We arrived just before lunch time and headed off to the Noah's Lake hide as this is where we were told both Lesser Scaup and the American Wigeon were to be found. ![]() So on the 23rd we traveled down to Shapwick and Hamwall. So with the weather forecast promising to be better from the 22nd we booked a couple of day away in Somerset to visit the levels and to see if we could catchup with a couple of long staying American ducks which were being seen regularly. Though considering all the wet weather we were having and then the hard frosts started it didn't make birding a joy. ![]() We still hadn't broken the 100 species a figure we would usually get to in the first ten days of the year. So we continued birding locally until the 22nd January only doing an hour or two each time we went out not to put too much pressure on Jackie's back. We left Weymouth and Portland area with just 36 species after visiting 6 locations adding just 16 species bringing us to a round 60 in 5 hours of birding. Next day the weather was much better so we ventured to Portland and Reap Lane to see if we could seen the Cirl Bunting Which we did and had good views of but unfortunately for me I only managed a memory shot of it in the top of a Bramble Bush with its back to me before it flew off further away.
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