Taunton Wildlife

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Birding trip reports:

North central Brittany, October 2007

South central Brittany, April 2008

 

 

This website is maintained by Andrew Williams.  I am a school teacher and birdwatcher living in Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom.

23 August 2008 - Taunton

Taking a break from packing is made even more rewarding by photographing some garden Lepidoptera...

Thistle ermine

Painted lady

Speckled wood

Peacock

Gatekeeper

17 August 2008 - Somerset

This linnet at Huntspill Sluice was incredibly tame. Later, it allowed us to get so close that we switched to macro lenses (lower image).

25 July - 2 August 2008 - Northwest Brittany

A family holiday to France was brilliant but yielded very little in terms of birds. Highlights were a few Med gulls on the beach next to our gite in Santec, Finistere...

and this sacred ibis which turned up unexpectedly at Roscoff...

Birds-wise, that was pretty much it (apart from a great skua from the ferry and the usual zitting cisticolas). This ersey tiger moth, however, turned up posing nicely on the door of the gite and gave a chance to try out the new macro lens (underwing image taken through glass)...

 

 

Blackdown Hills, Children's Wood &  Hankridge Riverside LNR, Exmoor, Greylake RSPB reserve, Ham Wall RSPB reserve, Netherclay Community Wood, Quantock Hills, Shapwick, Westhay, West Sedgemoor RSPB reserve