As the birding calendar
enters into the doldrums a good storm is required to stir things up a bit. A
stupid o clock start had me walking in on the tail end of the storm. This made
the task of surveying a little bit tricky with many birds staying low in cover
to avoid the howling wind.
I met up with Derek
Coleman and we walked a familiar route around the environs on the North Lake.
As we entered the middle gate Derek saw a small gull near the water outlet. “Oh
what’s that?” he exclaimed. The gull was a juvenile type Little Gull which had
likely been driven down by the storm. Glen in the mean time had also picked up the gull from near the hide.
The bird was
reasonably close so the camera was put into action as the bird took a short flight
to another spot on the lake. The bird was still present when I left the site at
around 0900hrs.
The Farm has a pair
of very territorial Mute Swan on each of the North and South lakes and both
pairs have been successful with one cygnet being reared on the North Lake and
four on the South.
The cygnets are naturally
heavily guarded but I managed some shots from a good distance away.
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