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A morning visit to Elmley RSPB produced sheds loads of Marsh Harriers in cluding this juvenile bird that seemingly took great delight in moving sticks from one place to another.
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This young/female also in attendance and welcoming visitors to the reserve.
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Loads of Common Darters in the mini woodland - several of them doing their best to look like Ruddy Darters,but from the yellow on the side of the thorax, not black legs, etc, I reckoned I hadn't actually seen any Ruddies all day - Darter or Duck!!!
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This Migrant Hawker tried to pose - but unfortunately a bit too high in the bush, resulting in the overly bright background.
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Several Brown Argus also in the woodland, trying to take shelter in the strong wind.
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Plenty of Curlews on teh reserve, all cleverly staying just out of photo reach.
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The Elmley Spid... I really must take the tripod out to get some decent Spid pics - though in today's wind, I suspect that the challenge of an 'in focus' image would still have been too great!
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Immature Goldfinch - looking rather smug about something.
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