Weedon's World of Nature

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Med Gull at Deeping Lakes LWT (a couple of Glossy Ibises there, too)

Monday, July 15, 2024

Stone-curlew, Etton Pits (260 for my PBC all-time list)

Great respect to Hugh Wright for tirelessly working his Etton-Maxey patch every morning. What a find.

Thursday, July 04, 2024

First-summer Little Gull at Peak Hill (Cowbit Wash), Lincs

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Night Heron, Cowbit Wash, Part IV

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Night Heron, Cowbit Wash, Part III

Night Heron, Cowbit Wash (Peak Hill) Part II

Today, with Will Bowell and Dave Nurney, I relocated the Night heron flying south along the Welland (then out of sight behind a tree). It was a decent morning, with two Black-winged Stilts at Etton, and Two Glossy Ibises and eight Spoonbills at Deeping Lakes east pit. Also there were a Hobby chasing a Starling, a hepatic female Cuckoo, a Reed Bunting catching an Emperor Dragonfly mid-air (in its bill!), plus a Roe Deer ineracting with a Fox. At Cowbit Wash there were more than 120 Little Egrets.

Second-summer Night Heron, Cowbit Wash (Peak Hill) Part I

On Friday evening, I was trying to get a better look at a feeding flock of eight Spoonbills, so drove a little further down a track westward toward the River Welland. Having turned the car round to scan the flooded stubble fields, my eye caught a small grey heron clearly much smaller than the few Little Egrets. The rest is a blur. A UK find tick for me.