With the day off work on monday and the weekends floods subsiding long enough to contemplate going out for the day, Nat and I headed off down the A303 to Langford Lakes to see what was about. The answer to that question was pretty evident straight away - Not alot!
Tufted Ducks and
Canada Geese seemed the only birds to grace the water throughout the reserve, with even the usual
Coots and
Mallard fairly scarce.
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| Tufted Drake |
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| Angel Wings? Canada Goose |
2 Bird species however didn't appear to be lacking in numbers, I counted 17
Chiffchaffs in the time we spent at Langford, and I did manage to get a fairly decent photography of a singing Chiffchaff from the window of one of the hides.
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| Singing Chiffchaff |
The other was
Great-crested Grebe - on the 3 lakes they're were 12 birds, 9 Adults and 3 youngsters - definitely 4 pairs. 1 Pair still sat on a nest and another with 3 hungry youngsters. I don't remember ever seeing so many. Whilst watching the singleton Grebe from the camouflage of the hide, a
Kingfisher landed on the branches a mere 10 ft from the windows, a blessing usually, but in this instance a nightmare as no matter how many times he returned to many branches obstructed a picture.
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| The Grebe chick (Out of Shot) proceeded to wolf down this fish whole! |
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| Still on the nest. |
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| Grebe family. |
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| The singleton. |
Not the most thrilling of days but shouldn't complain to much - I thought I'd share this pic I took on friday morning, before the rain returned down at Rooksbury.
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"There is nothing, absolutely nothing so much worth doing as messing
around in boats." - Ratty (Wind in the Willows) this little chap might
need a boat if it keeps on raining.
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