great crested grebe
Yesterday was so successful birdwise that we decided to have an easy day today so we just popped to Testwood Lakes about 15 minutes from our house.
Funny it is so close to us and yet we have never been there before! Then again, last year we spent lots of time at Shatterford Bottom but haven't managed to get down there once this year. I guess we are just so lucky to have so many good birding areas in South Hampshire.
At Testwood Lakes there are three lakes, Meadow Lake (with hide), Testwood Lake, and Little Testwood Lake. On Testwood Lake we saw quite a few great crested grebes, coots, tufted ducks and lots of gulls, plus some goldfinches in the trees by the lake. We watched the goldfinches for 10 minutes or more - such beautiful birds always a pleasure to see.
There wasn’t much on Little Testwood Lake, but we did see some stonechats and longtailed tits on the walk.
In the wooded area we saw some meadow pipits, a song thrush and a little warbler, unfortunately I have no idea which warbler it is. All I know is that it was very small with some yellow on it and the photos were no help in identifying it!!
At one point I noticed two buzzards overhead and a couple of flocks of lapwing went past.
gulls at Testwood Lake
78. stock dove
79. song thrush
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