March 5th
A cold but very bright morning on Wednesday on our day out, as with most of this week, glorious sunshine from the word go.
In a 2-hour watch on both causeways I recorded a good number of species, most of the winter specialists like Gooseander and Goldeneye, I didn’t go further afield so would have likely added others that I knew were present.
Top of the show will undoubtedly go to the 2 Slavonian Grebes that are wintering, I have seen them in the past elsewhere but mostly fairly distant, these views were quite incredible.
I would presume a pair, both still in winter plumage, one of them was offering the other a piece of weed swimming around the other, no doubt the sun/growing warmth bringing on early breeding display.
Watched these for quite a while, also seen were Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 3 Redshank and a distant Common Buzzard amongst many others.
No sign of any Spoonbills/Cattle Egrets as yet, but Grey Heron colony in full flow.
