ROAD TRIP!!!!!

6/7/05 Welney Leaders: Simeon and James
James and I took the opportunity of a day out at Welney, twelve minutes there from Denver by car, about one and a half hours away by bike. For some unknown reason we took the cycling option. It was worth the journey though, because we saw 47 different species of bird. When we got there we went straight to the main observatory which provided a pair of Little Ringed Plovers, plenty of Avocets with young, several Gadwalls, the odd Marsh Harrier popping up over the reeds, a couple of Grey Herons, a male summer plumage Ruff, a single Black tailed godwit, a few Common Terns, two Common Snipes and a Common Sandpiper. Then we went to the Reedbed Hide to find a Ruddy Duck amongst about 15 female Mallards. In the hide there was a Cricket and a Wolf Spider. On the path there was a Stag Beetle. Finally we went to the Buxton Hide and saw, one Little Gull, ten very late Whooper Swans, two female Tufted ducks(one with two young and one with six young) and a female Shovelor. On the journey to Welney and back we saw a few Kestrels, one Turtle Dove and two Little Owls near some barns, the odd Great Crested Grebe and Grey Heron in dikes, two Sedge Warblers, a Whitethroat, a Blackcap and we heard a Yellowhammer. A very good count for Welney.