Birding walk round Walthamstow Wetlands in early March 2025

View across Lockwood reservoir

Starlings in a bush

Great Crested Grebe

Heron in flight

Female Common Pochard

Even numbers - three female and three male Tufted ducks

A pair of Great Crested Grebes were displaying

and then swam off!

Blue sky above the 1, 2, 3 path

Two Mute Swans on the Copper Mill stream

Lesser Black-backed gull

Cormorants in nests on Cormorant island

Close-up view of an Egyptian goose

Cormorant in breeding plumage

Male Tufted duck with reflection

 

Birding walk on my last morning in Thornwick Bay - 24th May 2024

I just walked round the Thornwick Bay Holiday Park site on my last morning as I was carrying a heavy backpack and did not want to travel far with it.

A Skylark was soaring into the sky at the edge of the holiday park

Young Starlings were waiting to be fed by an adult

A male Chaffinch was singing from the top of a fir tree

There was a short fuzzy caterpillar at the entrance to the bird hide in Thornwick Pools

A Moorhen walked past a tiny Pied Wagtail

A Sedge Warbler was flitting about in the reeds at the back of Thorwick Pools nature reserve

A Mute Swan absolutely dwarfed a Little Ringed Plover

Closer view of the Little Ringed Plover

A pair of Canada Geese with a gosling were feeding on grass in front of pink Ragged Robin flowers

Early Purple Orchid near the edge of the fishing lake

That was it!  Great birding trip to Thornwick Bay, Bempton Cliffs and Flamborough Head was over!

Birds seen during a walk round RSPB Rainham Marshes at the beginning of October 2023

I visited RSPB Rainham Marshes on 4th October and enjoyed a lovely birding walk round the reserve.

The Lapwings were disturbed, probably by a bird of prey, and flew around above a multitude of Black-tailed Godwits

Small selection of Black-tailed Godwits standing in the lagoon with a couple of Lapwings

The Lapwings were flying around in the air above the many Black-tailed Godwits that were standing in the lagoon

A family of Mute Swans was cruising along the lagoon in front of the many electricity pylons that are in the area

It was great to see a couple of Ruffs looking for food on an island in the lagoon

Here there are three well-disguised Ruffs and a Pied Wagtail

The reserve was full of Little Egrets - these two were avoiding one another on the left-hand side of the lagoon

Another two Little Egrets were standing by dark foliage on the right-hand side of the lagoon

A large group of Starlings were blocking the path leading to a bird hide