Short-E Owls Cambridge



Jay



Just nice

 While walking over the meadow on friday, I meet Adam & he tells me he has seen the Kingfisher on the river Roding by Debden Bridge, so I walk along the Roding to the bridge, but no sign, so I scan the bushes on the way back & pick out a Song Thrush just by the little brook between the fields as I try for a photo a dog barks at me & it must of spooked a Kingfisher as it flies along the ditch &turns into the river, so target bird found always nice to see them, only down side I only ever see them in flight, never sitting to let me get a nice photo.

nice Autumn colour

On Saturday Jimmy & I meet up with Brian for a short trip to Jimmys patch at Lea Valley C P trying for the Bittern thats been seen this week.
We stay for a couple of hours but no sign, only a Water Rail, a Great spotted Woodpecker feeds on feeders. A quick walk down to the weir to look for a Grey Wagtail as Jimmy has not seen one over here this year & wanted it for a tick, but no luck. On the way back we see Goldcrest in the bushes, some Egyptian Geese are on the Goose field.
Home now to watch Arsenal v Spurs.

Arsenal win 5-2 so the whole family are happy.

On Sunday Brian thinks better of driving to Devon for a big twitch, & instead we head off to Burwell fen in Cambridge for a look at S E Owls.
It's only about 1 hour away, so we set out at 12 0'clock & we are soon looking over the Fens, we look from the bridge for some time but no luck, so off for a walk along the path through the Fen, we soon see one Owl flying along the bank a fair distance away.We set up the scopes with some other people, & soon we see at least 4 0wls up a lot closer to us this time, what a great sight to see these birds.



S E Owl the best I could get

 We see also plenty of Reed Bunting, flocks of Goldfinch, Stonechat also seen.
On the way home we see Thousands of Rooks flying above us, a really great sight that you don't see every day.


Just before we left the Fens