Hi All
Wildlife and visitors alike have been enjoying the beautiful weather this week with frosty mornings and beautiful blue sky days.
Can you spot the female brambling?
There is a definite spring feel on site with robin, reed bunting and dunnock singing their claims and black thorn, snow drop, celandine and primrose in flower. In contrast to that (it is still February after all) we still have good numbers of chaffinch and up to 4 brambling (not quite as good as the Lodges 100+) feeding on site and the wildfowl have had to take up ice skating on frozen lagoons. Other sightings this week have been the pair of kingfishers back at the nest bank quite often, peregrine surveying his domain from high on the pylon, snipe and water rail from Ashby hide, gold crest, chiff chaff, bullfinch and cettis warbler along the trails and shelduck and green sandpiper from Gadwall hide. We are also starting to get regular sightings again of water vole from the Ashby hide bridge, which as you can see from my photo can still be quite hard to spot, listen out for the munching that always gives them away!.
We hope to see you soon taking full advantage of this lovely weather.
Thanks
Vicky