Brian drops us off at the entrance to the visitor center and then parks the car down on the causeway. ,
He then joins us in walking the line of trees at the side of the reserve entrance, where we soon hear the wonderful sound of several male Nightingale.
Then we get a great view of one as it shows out in the open for a long time what a nice bonus that was. Nice to get some other people onto the bird as they had never seen a Nightingale and a pleasure to see their response.
Off round to Lodge lane viewpoint to look for a couple of Ring Ouzel that had been seen there.
It turns out to be harder than we expected as they were a long way from the screen and also in the long grass-feeding down by the edge of the reservoir, we are told that they have been seen on and off over the morning so just a case of patience we hope. It is nearly an hour before we get a flight view and then the 2 males show out in the open for a short time, a good year tick and we also get a tick with a couple of Yellow Wagtails show back on the track.
One last look down on the causeway gets us a tick with Common Tern show well.
A nice morning and only an hour from home.
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| The Nightingale |
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| Two poser Terns |
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| Common Tern |
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| One of the Yellow Wagtails |
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