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Tag Archives: mute swans
Otterly quacking
It’s always the same story at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire after I’ve flashed my membership card and I’m walking getting that first view of the patchwork of lakes designed by Sir Peter Scott. All at once, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Countryside, Current Affairs, Cycling, Science, Watery things
Tagged American otter, Bewick swans, ducks, Gloucestershire, Lutra lutra, Muscovy Duck, mute swans, New Grounds, pintails, quackers, Sir Peter Scott, Slimbridge, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, tufted duck, whistling ducks, wildfowl
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Behind Chesil Beach
The Fleet lagoon is the stretch of water that lies behind that extraordinary storm beach of nature-graded pebbles which stretches for 18 miles along the Dorset coast. This brackish, tidal pool is an SSSI, a Ramsar site for a very … Continue reading
Posted in Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Seaside, Watery things
Tagged abbotsbury, abbotsbury swannery, Chesil Beach, coots, Dorset, Ian McEwan, mergansers, mute swans, On Chesil Beach, tufted duck
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Janh1: Mainly fair with occasional rain. 