Every now and then I give a little plug for another one of our fabulous reserves. A couple of weeks ago I visited our Yare Valley Reserves in Norfolk. Strumpshaw Fen, Cantley and Buckenham were on the to do list and we managed to see eight species of geese including the only Taiga Bean Geese in England and the one and only Lesser White-fronted Goose! Thousands of Golden Plover, Lapwing and Wigeon filled the sky and Peregrines and Marsh Harriers were keeping everything on edge. However, it was the Corvid Roost at Buckenham Marshes that became the main event with perhaps 50,000 Jackdaws and Rook coming in from miles around on a beautiuful evening to congregate before going to roost in the copse by Buckenham Church. It really only gets going after sundown and you need to stay till proper dark top witness the full cacophony of that many noisy bird swirling like black snow above your head. Truly mesmerising and one of the UK's best bird spectacles and once agaiin on an RSPB Reserve.
Some of the black mass... (Andrea Vaughan)
Enjoy!