A pleasant sunny afternoon. This was my view from the Geoff Smith hide, over to the left Bubwith Ings was flooded.
I am not sure that you can see the water in this picture. Although the Ings are flooded, only 3 black-headed gulls were on it. I could see some lapwings in the distance on the Carrs, so decided to walk down to the Garganey hide. These are the views from the hide.
I could not see the lapwings from the hide, as they were hidden from view by a row of vegetation.
3 roe deer were busily feeding
A single mute swan landed on the reserve
A very distant male stonechat
Lots of crows flying about, a grey heron looking for food and 2 buzzards in the distance. A peregrine disturbed the lapwings, but when they settled, they were still out of view. About 3.30pm I walked back to the Geoff Smith hide and joined 2 other birders. They were looking at a hornet, which was on one of the windows. One of them left and shortly afterwards Elaine arrived, with he dog for the hearing.
A few starlings flew across the reserve and a pair of wrens were in the brambles to the right of the hide.
Elaine left, and then did the other birder. I stayed for a while in the hope of seeing either a barn owl or some whooper swans fly in, neither showed, so I went home.
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