If I'm working from home all day chained to my desk without going birding or undertaking a site visit then I take half an hour's break for exercise and go for a walk through my local woodland. I do this perhaps three times per week but never really blog about it because it is more of a 'power walk' for exercise, rather than a birding walk. In fact I don't carry my bins, but do take my notebook and record all the species I see and hear, and I've been doing this for a couple of years.
Within the woodland are two ponds and the only birds I ever see on them are Mallard and Moorhen and on one memorable occasion I had a Grey Heron. That was until this morning when I had a mega on the first pond in the form of a Coot!!! A first for the site! Not a rare bird at all of course, but it made my day!
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Know the feeling of getting the Coot on patch! Not quite a mega here, but very scarce none the less :-)
I think it's fabulous that a coot makes someone's day :)
Nice one. Not seen Coot on my patch, even though it includes Echna Loch!! It's one of those species that you think should be there but I've not found it so far. Probably not enough cover around the edges of the Loch for it.
Thanks all. That Coot really did make my day!
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