I said I'd make more effort to get out and about so with a free day today I headed up to Abberton reservoir for first light. I found yesterdays Wood Sandpiper with a Green and four Common Sandpipers. A Kingfisher perched in a distant Willow, the same trees that held breeding Grey Heron, Little Egrets, Cattle Egrets and a single nest of Spoonbill that held four almost fully grown chicks and kept both parents busy feeding them whilst I was there.
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Common Sandpiper |
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Grey Heron |
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Spoonbill nest top left, Cattle Egret nest bottom right |
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Spoonbill nest also in the picture nesting Cattle and Little Egret along with Grey Herons. |
The Slavonian Grebe showed well from the causeway too and was great to see in it's summer plumage.
Following a tip off I headed to the car park at Fingrinhoe Wick where I watched two Osprey first sat on posts out on the salt marsh then both in flight ironically headed in the direction of Abberton.
On the journey home down the A12 I took the short diversion to Hanningfield where I found plenty of Red-crested Pochard and the newly arrived Ruddy Shelduck. On the wader front just 13 Black-tailed Godwits and some Lapwing but it was good to see breeding Pochard on site.
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Pochard |
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Pochard |
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The Ruddy Shelduck amongst the Red-crested Pochard |
Year list now 208
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Finally got a picture of the vixen visiting my garden |
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