Turtle Dove

 2nd visit of this summer to Sutton Bank Visitor centre. The 1st bird we saw

 

Last of the Spoonbill walks.

The last 3 Spoonbill experience walks this weekend. Before the walks I visited different parts of the reserve,

The "Big Hole"

The Village Bay from Cut Lane.

The view from Charlie's Hide. At least 100 mute swans.

A kingfisher has been seen on a regular basis from the Pickup Hide.

Lots of young Jays have also been seen.

Water rail and bittern have also been seen over this weekend.

This is a photo taken from one of the walks, showing several "teaspoons" feeding.

As the young spoonbills are able to fly their parents are taking them to different pasts of the reserve to feed.

These were on New Flash.

 

Drama at Fairburn!

 

I paid my usual visit to Lin Dike before going to the visitor centre for the Spoonbill walk. A dull rainy morning, which luckily cleared up before the walk started.

Hundreds of greylag and canada geese.

This pink-footed goose was with them.

Common terns were flying about before landing on the posts.

While waiting for the people to turn up for the walk, a young swan decided to land on the visitor centre roof!

After a while it made a crash landing in the play area.

One of the members of the wardens team rescued it and after checking that it was OK, released in another part of the reserve.