It was nice to take a long over due day off today. So the dogs and I headed for Carlton Marsh just down the road. it was a red hot day so there were loads of Butterflies and Dragonflies about.
Then the dogs found me and extremely good looking
Grass Snake sunning itself.
We reached the scrape to a number of waders,
Wood Sandpiper,
Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Black tailed Godwit and a
Flying Greenshank. Other bits were a nice
Hobby and lots of
Black tailed Skimmers.
Wood Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Little Egret and Black tailed Godwit
I continued round to James Jane and the gang curious as to what they were watching..
MARSH WARBLER Wow, but it had flow into thick cover DOH. I waited with the gang for a good while but nothing so moved slightly down the bank where after another 45 I finally picked the bird up in sub song. It wasn't going to show itself though. Willow Warbler and Goldfinch were just a couple of its mimicking songs. Headed home as id had enough of the sun now :-)
Come half 7 I decided to head back to Carlton just incase the Marsh Warbler was going to sing and show better but no luck as the mist dropped in. This
Cuckoo and 2
Barn Owls made up for it though. Best views of cuckoo ive had for a long time.
What a great day, Wish I had more time off :-)
No comments:
Post a Comment