Welcome Paul
Thank you very much for sharing your photographs with us, they are fab.
I had to look up where Shapwick Moor is, you were so fortunate to enjoy the company of this Osprey, maybe one on migration.
I hope you don't mind but as the links needed to be copy and pasted into the browser to view, I have snipped them to post here.
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Thanks Paul, Great pics.
Many thanks, Paul, for posting your super photos. What a wonderful day you had! I too had no idea where Shapwick Moor is, but I do now! Near Glastonbury, what a lovely part of the country.
And thank you Mary for bringing over the photos, that is very helpful of you - as ever!
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Lovely pics thanks Paul, and Mary for posting. So nice to see an osprey still about.
Paul, Many thanks for sharing your photos and thanks to Mary for posting them here! Shapwick Moor is a small part of a complex of nature reserves in the area known as Avalon Marshes. We've only had a chance to see a tiny part of one of them, RSPB Ham Wall, where in the hour we were there in 2016 we were fortunate to see a Glossy Ibis and a Bittern flying across in front of us while we were sitting at the first viewing platform. Each reserve is owned by a different society but there is a small Avalon Marshes visitor centre just down the road from Shapwick Moor with information on all of the local reserves. There is also a craft/gift shop at the centre and there are plans for a restaurant. There was a tiny restaurant a couple of years ago but when we were there last autumn it had closed although we could get a cuppa in the shop. It is an area worth visiting. Have a look here:
https://avalonmarshes.org/
Kind regards, Ann