North Duffield Carrs.

 

I called in at North Duffield on my way home from North Cave Wetlands. A vast amount of water. No sign of the borders of the scrape and only thin ribbons of land where the river banks are.

Despite the rain and gloom it is possible to see further back along the valley towards Thorganby. Looking through my scope I could make out the shapes of lots of geese and swans, which I presumed were whoopers.

The vegetation next to the hide has been thinned out.

I ws not surprised to see the Garganey hide was once again under water!

A few wigeon on the water and on some of the strips of land. There were large flocks of lapwings in the air.

This picture shows about a tenth of the flocks constantly flying around. A buzzard flew over and soon had an escort.

A wren was in the brambles in front of the hide.

I only spent an hour there as the light was fading fast, but I enjoyed seeing all the lapwings and had a bird list of 18, which I thought was good, given the conditions.