Osprey - Pete Blanchard
Tuesday 15 April – Chew Valley Ringing Station Leader: Graham Blacker
April 15, 2025
To celebrate the 1,500th Tuesday walk, we enjoyed a very interesting and informative three hours, when 45 members visited the Chew Valley Lake Ringing Station. We met, and spent time both before and after, at Herriotts Bridge, where there was a wide variety of birds seen, including Little Gull, Little Ringed Plover, Bittern, Pintail, Green
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