These are a few photos from a trip to Rodley Nature Reserve
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I was very pleased with this visit to Rodley Nature Reserve.
A Cetti’s Warbler could be heard. They normally stay hidden in the reeds and this one was doing exactly that except for the time it wanted to go from one reed bank to another. I was looking through my camera at the time and managed to spot it.
The Little Ringed Plover were also a good sighting. One of them, when feeding on the water’s edge went past what I thought was an egg. It was only after I got back home and looked at the photo that I could see the dimples and read Titleist.
For most of the visit though I was looking closely at one section of reeds for a Jack Snipe. After spending ages looking for it I eventually found a tiny patch of brown that was bobbing. It was a small patch of the head or back of the bird. It was the right colour and bobbing but nothing else was identifiable. After a while the bird walked past a gap between the reeds. The gap was only a couple of centimetres so I could see a narrow strip of the bird pass through. After a good while of waiting the bird made itself visible between some reeds. A Moorhen then cam running along and scared the Jack Snipe up into the air so I managed to get a blurred photo of it in the air.
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