Rutland Water Visit

Chilly day yesterday for an RPSNature visit to Rutland Water where Hobbies were definitely the stars of the day with several hawking in the sky from lunchtime onwards and one sitting on a post for a long wile before exiting front giving a disappointing shot for all the wait!! Lots of singing small birds including Reed Bunting and Sedge Warbler.

Frampton Birds 8th June

 I made a third visit to Frampton on the last day of our Lincolnshire holiday and concentrated in the morning on the birdlife, especially the Sedge Warblers and Reed Bunting in the reeds, the Spoonbills feeding, Sand Martins at their artificial bank, a visiting Red-crested Pochard, Lapwings and Little Ringed Plover.

Carlton Marshes

 Despite getting very wet in the morning with a sudden heavy shower, we thoroughly enjoyed our day at Suffolk Wildlife Trust's reserve at Carlton Marshes with Sedge Warblers, Reed Warblers, Linnets, Reed Bunting, Marsh Harriers, Heron's fishing and Dragonflies keeping our cameras busy.

Exciting Day at Rutland

A day of drama at Rutland Eggleton Nature Reserve with the RPS Nature Group both in the weather - thunder and lightning included - and the target birds - Hobby, Osprey and Cuckoo. Not quality photos by a long way but may give an idea of the action in sunny and cloudy skies (we failed to catch an Osprey with background lightnings flashes in a photo!). At the end, Reed and Sedge Warblers, Wren and Reed Buntings that tantalised us with brief visible moments in the reeds) 

Sunset Fox and Birds

When I first moved to Toft in the late 1960s, a favourite sunset walk was always to the rushy marshy area now occupied by the Meridian golf club which had a very large Reed Bunting roost in the winter. I thought when they built the golf club in 1983 that this would be dispersed but it just moved a short way to an area of farmland that is left in the winter as it is too wet to plough. As I approached the roost area I was aware of a large number of pheasants getting very agitated and it was only when I got home and looked at the photos that I realised they had seen the Fox before me! All the birds were very jittery but images of Reed buntings, Goldfinch and Fieldfare (we have dozens of these at the moment).