Saturday 22 February 2014

Saturday 22nd February

While in Durham saw a number of juvenile cormorants and long-tailed tit.

Last weekend I was on a "cultural" trip to Brussels, made a chance first bird spot. A green parakeet through over the Magritte house in Jette just as we were being shown round the garden. What was not a good view (basically a silhouette against the sky) was considerably improved upon the day after when several species were spotted flying around the fringes of a park near the Foret de Seignes.  Also
What a poser!
heard but did not see them in the area of the Parc Royal.  A sign of the mild weather was a red admiral in flight at the Botanique this morning.

On the way to Foret de Seignes got a nice view of a posing cormorant (see picture).

Before this constant rain had put a halt to all nature activities for 10 days, but there was another greenfinch in the trees around the corner a day or two before I left for Brussels.



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