Sunday 15th October a.m.
A cloudy start but the sun soon came out with another mild temperature of 12°C it was very pleasant walking.The reservoir held
Mallards, Canadas and
Tufted Ducks that I could see from the viaduct with
BH Gulls on the dam wall and a
Common Gull on the buoy in the water.
Pied Wagtail and
Coal Tit were good additions at Station Road and walking through the wood I was pleased to catch up with a
GSW, not seen many this year.The top end of the reservoir had five each of
Wigeon and
Teal,Grey Heron, Cormorant and a very distant
Little Grebe which was a site first for me.Then coming back I got my first
Redwing of the Autumn,it quickly disappeared into a tree full of berries where no doubt it had some chums keeping out of the way of a
Mistle Thrush protecting its berries.Also here were
Chaffinch,Greenfinch and
Goldfinch.I saw another two Pied Wagtails by the farm as I made my way home.
Nigel.
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| Cormorant |
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| Grey Heron |
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| Redwing |
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| Mistle Thrush guarding the berries |
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| Chaffinch |
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| Greenfinch |
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| Distant Little Grebe |
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| Pied Wagtail |
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| Wigeon |
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| Teal |
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| Hewenden Reservoir 15/10/2017 |
Cracking Teal shot Nigel - great colours.
ReplyDeleteJohn
Thanks John, they were a long way off and I was having to find a gap between branches on the trees,did you spot the reflection of the Grey Heron which was behind the Teal but I couldn't get it in the shot with them.
ReplyDeleteNigel.