The sun is out i must leave work and meet Simon, Lee, Tony and Derek at Fort Hommet.
A Rock Pipet or is it a Water Pipet, we could not decide but we have photos and will hope.
It is windy and we decide that we will leave the coast and head for Silbe.
Spring is here, spring flowers and 10 mallard Chicks.
Buzzards are great and we had Jackdaw which is a first for my year list which takes me to 90.
 loverly sunshine so we walk back to the car and on to Claire Mare only three of us now. all the normal ducks and a Pochard. play with the camera and settings and hopfully some nice photos.
another great day and i have had another guernsey birder showing an interest in joining our ever growing group of explorers.
I have phoned the man who has been allowing me to try out his 170mm-500mm sigma lense and have agreed to buy it, told you it was a good day.




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    I hoping this year to improve my knowledge of birds, to help my friends to grow there knowledge of birds, I have sent myself a target of 135 different birds in Guernsey for 2012, try to take better and better photographs and keep my daughter interested in birdwatching and hope to start interesting my son in birdwathing.
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    I am a Birdwatcher who lives in Guernsey Channel Islands.
    I have a Canon 500D camera and i am hoping to be able to but a Sigma 170mm-500mm Lense that i am trying out.

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    I hoping this year to improve my knowledge of birds, to help my friends to grow there knowledge of birds, I have sent myself a target of 135 different birds in Guernsey for 2012, try to take better and better photographs and keep my daughter interested in birdwatching and hope to start interesting my son in birdwathing.
    We are very lucky in Guernsey because we have a lot of different habitats which you can visit all in the same day making it quite easy to see 50 different birds in a morning.
    Some of the best places in Guernsey are the Clarie Mare reserve which is has a good size pond with a nice size reed bed. The colin Best reserve which is a marshy headland area with a nice little bramble lined walk.
    Vale pond which is a larger pond with marsh bed, Silbe nature reserve which is a lovery little wooded walk. the cliffs and headland at pleinmont point which are great all year round and are allways the first point of call for a lots of migrants. Lots of are beaches are also very good.
    Guernsey is just a great place to live and to do birding.