And it is rare for Lavell's itself, the 1st Jan 1992 BSL male was claimed to have gone to Lavell's, the unconfirmed (observer unknown - OU) report of 1/8th & 16th September 1995, is also claimed there, as is the male 31st March 1996 (OU), but that is all of them, the rest are all BSL, Lea Farm GP and Sandford, with 2 straying to WSL during their stays.
I'd first thought these birds appear to be a female and an immature of this year, but the tell tale feature of bright pink bills, gives them away as eclipse male (thank you for the correction Adam)
And just when you think it's done and dusted Trevor calls me to say "5 Pintail just swam out from behind the old tern island", annoyingly they flew off towards Sandford, but I could not relocate them. He also had a Spotted Flycatcher on the dead tree beyond the back of Tern scrape. Add the Barn Owl he also saw and we added 4 new species for September 92 now, so equal to 2013, 4 more to equal 3rd place with 2014, Pintail is new for the year and the third highest count, 8/23rd Jan 1992, 6/4th Feb 1991 being the others.
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