Time for a spot of birding after completing the H&S checks. A walk down to the viewing screen at Lin Dike was rewarded with sightings of a sleeping spoonbill
Not a brilliant picture, but considering that it has hardly been light today, I was surprised that I could see the bird. A great white egret was looking for food in the field
plenty of highland cattle, but no sign of any cattle egrets. Black-headed gulls, cormorants, shelduck, shoveler, mallard, goldeneye and teal on the lagoon. Some teal were having a nap near the waters edge.
I then drove to the visitor centre and walked to the Pickup Hide.
Blue and great tits on the single feeder. Great, blue and coal tits on the feeder in the garden, just outside the visitor centre, plus goldfinch.
It is now pouring it down. Will we have flooding in the Lower Derwent Valley?
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