Happy families at North Duffield Carrs

 

The above was my view from the Geoff Smith hide at 6am this morning. I could not see any birds on the visible water on the scrape. A water rail however was calling all the time I was there.

Plenty of insect life in front of the hide.

A male deer was enjoying his breakfast.

A female marsh harrier was hunting over the far end of the reserve and several snipe were doing their acrobatic air display. In front of the hide lots of activity as sedge warblers, whitethroats, blackcaps, dunnocks, robin and great tits were catching food for their young.

When I left at 8.30am I had a list of 26 birds.