Hello everyone. We are hoping to book our holiday cottage for our usual visit to Wales following the Leighton Moss meet-up so which week do folks prefer for meeting at LM--possibly the week of Friday 17 June to Friday 24 June or the week after that, Friday the 24 June to Friday 1 July in 2022? As previously, we would only be at LM for parts of a few days in whichever week, and I expect some of you would do the same or be there for the whole week--up to you of course. Please have a quick look at your calendars and post here--because the two weeks following those weeks are still available to book a cottage we like the look of in Wales, and we'd best book something quickly or miss out! Hope to see everyone this year if possible, and a few new forumates joining us at LM for a meet-up for some of that time would be lovely, too. Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.
Kind regards, Ann
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Regards, Hazel
I had a fantastic break away Hazy thanks to everyone I met and hope to meet again some day.
So here are a few more - some of the many Coots on the water just in front of the hide and over to the trees where the Marsh Harriers seemed to like to cruise around looking for dinner, or just to play.
This was taken at 12.25
Blow me at 12.41 we had a visitor - so I had no chance to get ready for the flypast of the ..........
now don't laugh too much at the bad pic but at least it is a BITTERN,
So to make up for the rotten shot here are some birds that sailed past nicely within my range, though of course the Bittern was also in range I was just too excited.
Dad and one babe, I think we heard the others had been predated.
Difficult to see these hidden in the reeds
A'h three
Or maybe more
Try again
and at last a good view
A few of the Marsh Harriers to come in a bit.
Lot to learn
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
Here are a few of the Marsh Harriers, what a beautiful bird they are, and fabulous to see so many of them, almost enticing me to put my hand in pocket and get a bigger lens!!!!!!!!
If you look closely, really closely lol, you can see there are three on this photo and maybe passing food from the top one to probably youngster below.
Probably the best one
Cld be Reed Bunting
So now to Friday morning before we left for home
The Salt Marsh
Oy-oy
Beautiful Lapwing
Avocet sitting - quite a distance away
A coot a little nearer :-)
Something disturbed the gulls so I looked back to find the Avocet upright
Pleased to get a chance to see them (there were three) though not near each other as I haven't seen one before .
Egret - of which I have seen many!!!
To finish of course it has to be a Robin
We'll be back next year hopefully.
That's it folk, hope you enjoyed the ramble as much as I did, and the company was excellent.
Hope your legs have recovered Gaynor, great to see these pics & looking forward to seeing more!
Edit: Caught up now, more lovely sightings & pleased to hear how much you enjoyed your break!
2013 photos & vids here
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(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.