Venus Pools & Polemere

Myself and Brian Pollard took a trip over the boarder to Shropshire today, to a couple of nature reserves that I hadn't visited before. The weather was great and the birds were equal to that. Around 40 species were seen, and highlights were:-

Venus Pools
1 drake Mandarin, 10+ Teal, 20+ Shoveler, 2 Wigeon, 200+ Greylags, 7 Great Crested Grebes, 1 Lillte Grebe, 200+ Black-headed Gulls, 2 Common Gulls, 3 Lesser Black-backed gulls, a handful of each Reed Bunting and Yellowhammer, 1 male Peregrine, 1 Male Goshawk, 2+ Sparrowhawks, 2 Grey Herons, 30+ Lapwings and 10+ Snipe.

Polemore

A family of 5 Whooper Swans, 1 redhead Goosander, 2 Little Grebes, 2 Wigeons, 10+ Teal, 75+ Greylags, 50+ Canada Geese and 1 Barnacle Goose.