It was nearly 3pm yesterday when I arrived at North Duffield Carrs, thanks to some road closures .
The female mute swan was on the nest and doing a little more nest building. On the scrape were 6 male tufted ducks and 2 females, and oddly enough 6 male teal and 2 females! A pair of mallard and gadwall were busily feeding.
A hare slowly passed in front of the hide.
On the river bank a red-legged partridge was calling non stop.
This was my view from the Garganey Hide.
The water level is slowly dropping, so there are fewer birds close to the hide. There are still a reasonable number of pintail and shoveler on the reserve, but the majority of the birds present are wigeon. They were grazing on the vegetation ,nearly into the field. After a while they returned to the water.
A pair of teal were dabbling at the waters edge
There were several shelduck at the far end of the reserve
No sign of any birds of prey.
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