Originally the Rounding off of February was going to be one post but I decided to split this into several posts. This one is for the trips to Rodley Nature Reserve.
If you look carefully you can see a Kingfisher but you will need better eyes than mine to see a Jack Snipe.
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Rodley Nature Reserve
This had already been noticed at Denso but on my visits to Rodley Nature Reserve several of the birds were getting their breeding plumage. The adult Cormorants were showing white patches.
The highlights of this visit were getting reasonable sight of a Water Rail, several Snipe and a Green Sandpiper. The photo of the reeds has a Jack Snipe in the middle, or so I am told. Someone with a spotting scope told me exactly where it was but even zooming in I can’t find it. I wont tick it on my list yet.
Other things spotted were a Kingfisher next to the Sand Martin roost, Peregrine Falcon atop a pylon, a Pink Footed Goose in with the Greylag Geese, Fieldfare and Pied Wagtail over near the farmer’s pile of manure, near the path to the Manager’s Garden. One of the advantages of it being a pond within a nature reserve is the lack of plastic floating about or hanging from the trees. On the river it would be so easy to dismiss that bit of blue as a plastic bag.
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