Well the forecast nice weather has finally arrived - although I am not sure that I like this warm weather at the end of October!
Things have quietened down on the bird fron as you would expect at this time of year - although there are still groups of thrushes coming in on a daily basis. By far the highlight the last couple of days has been Ralf our resident white tailed eagle; he finally seems to have mastered the art of hunting and has been seen taking several victims since the weekend. He has developed the technique of flying rather slowly and very close to the ground across the low ground to flush everything and then with a couple of powerful beats of his huge wings suddenly speeds up and lazily sticks out his leg and skewers some unfortunate beast on his talons before flying off and consuming his hard won snack! Great fun to watch but would not want to be on the business end of his bill though!
Following on from the rain the water levels are now slowly dropping although they are several days away from the usual depth for this time of year, and if the forecast is correct and more rain is on its way who knows when we shall get dry ground in front of the centre again!
Dom