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This is the highest tree in the lake area of Painshill Park, and a regular resting place for itinerant Cormorants. However, today was the first time that I had seen as many as five there together.

Surrey, UK, Jan 2012.

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There has been a group of ten Goosanders, including three females, at Painshill for the past few days. This was the female with the best coiffed hair-do.

Surrey, UK, Jan 2012.

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A Barn Owl does his evening rounds near Old Woking, Surrey, January 2012.

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Several migrant Short-Eared Owls have been staying near Old Woking since before Christmas, and I had heard that they normally give a late-afternoon flying display. So at 3.30 today I was there with my camera, and this owl has obligingly turned his head to face me and smiled (?).

Old Woking, Surrey, Jan 2012.

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On a crisp winter's morning at Painshill Park, Surrey. A Heron stands guard by the Chinese bridge. Jan 2012.