Spoonbills at Fairburn

 

Spent some time this afternoon at Lin Dike end of Fairburn Ings. On the walk to the hide lots of birds singing. Blackbird, song thrush, blackcap, chiffchaff. Plenty of flowers etc.

The heavy rain showers was breaking off some of the petals.

The view from the hide during a sunny moment.

Lots of swifts about flying high when the sun was shining, flying much lower when the rain came. Large numbers of sand martins flying low over the water, but I did not see any using the sand bank at the Pickup hide.

A marsh harrier flew low over the field to my right, where the highland cattle were grazing. As the harrier came to the waters edge it disturbed 7 cattle egrets.

4 spoonbills were feeding on the lagoon. One spoonbill chased away any spoonbill which came near it.