Thursday 16 November 2017

TWO MORE VISITS TO THE LOCAL PATCH.


After the weekly shop at Sainsbury's I popped over to Marsh Lane on Monday morning.The promised "Sunny weather" had not happened and it was pretty cold and gloomy.

The only interesting birds were 4 Herring Gulls on the CP pool. Didn't manage to check if there was a Yellow-legged Gull among them (too gloomy).








Went down again yesterday morning.If anything it was even more gloomy.As I crossed the streamline all the birds on the RW pool took to the air.I was too slow to spot the Peregrine responsible and only got a couple of shots as it flew off in the distance.







The good news in the oak hide was that a Grey Wagtail paid a visit to the marsh.The bad news was that the gloom was making hard to get even a half decent shot.Here a few that weren't too bad.








Also in the marsh were 6 Common Snipe.






On the way back to the CP in the reeds in front of the N causeway hide the very elusive Cetti's Warbler was flitting around.It did not play ball and never came close.This is all I got. 




This is one I took earlier (last spring) quite near the N causeway hide.Same bird ?




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