My day for manning the reception hide at Blacktoft and hopefully catching up with a ringtail hen harrier. However it rained all day, so visibility was poor, so if the harrier did appear I missed it.
I started at Ousefleet hide where there were lots of shovelers and lapwings. On my way back to Marshland hide lots of pink-footed geese flew over.
Marshland had nothing to offer so Reedling was next and I was pleased to see this family of Whooper swans.
they were a little agitated as a male mute swan was swimming towards them, but he stopped when they swam in the opposite direction. Lots of shovelers and wigeon on the lagoon. First lagoon also had lots of wigeon. The bushes around Townend lagoon were popular with marsh harriers.
I was unable to get all the bushes in one shot. There were 8 marsh harriers in total. There were also 2 adult whooper swans, which like the ones on Reedling were being chased by a mute swan.
Singleton lagoon had lots of wigeon and an adult and young whooper swan, so it was nice to see the birds before they flew off to feed in the fields next to the reserve.
I took this picture from Reedling at 3.15 and as you can see it was nearly dark, time to go home. Still lots of fieldfares in the trees in the car park, along with redwing and mistle thrush.
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