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Old 30-11-2008, 08:15 PM
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Re: Bird of the day!

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Originally Posted by Gerel View Post
Definite bird of the year today. Coming home from walking the dogs at Llyn Clywedog (local reservoir in mid-Wales) a male henharrier flew across the road in front of us and settled in a field, maybe fifty yards away. An absolute first for me in this area, in fact I haven't even heard of them being around here and this was less than a mile from home. I'll be going back with the camera to see if he's still around as soon as I get a chance.

Steve
A very nice bird to see, Steve!

By coincidence I was reading about Llyn Clywedog just the other day, on a web site by someone who walked the Glyndwr Way long-distance path that goes by it.
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