Tuesday 18 January 2011

Birder's Bonus 90

Yesterday, around a dozen Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) were feeding in the grassy area inside the University running track. There was a dead bird of prey (a Kestrel?) near the Singleton Park Boating Lake.

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