More Whoopers..........

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Via a message yesterday on my birdnet pager of 6 Whooper Swans at Swithland Reservoir had me driving over to the reservoir just before my late shift.
With the minutes ticking away before I had to be on duty I finally saw the group in the south section of the reservoir and not the north section as the pager and website had said!?
So as usual I took a few record digishots of the Swans and then drove like Sebastien Loeb in the country lanes of Charnwood to get to work on time!

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The Leicester Llama said…
Birdguides said 'from Kinchley Lane', so either that was wrong, or they must have been on the north side originally and moved to the south side.
7 December 2009 at 13:43
Russ Malin said…
More importantly who the fuck is Sebastian Loeb? Does he play for Watford?
8 December 2009 at 15:50
davidearlgray said…
No problems Andy, I Spoke to a couple of birders at Swithland Resv at the northern end and didn't know anything about it, so probably Birdguides got it wrong?

Russ, Sebastian Loeb is the current world rally champion!!
8 December 2009 at 17:39
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