Some or most of you will already know, but at the end of each month, we will be choosing a photo of the month. The lucky winner will have their picture displayed on this very blog for the masses to admire. There are some good pictures already uploaded for September but there is room for a lot more! So there’s ten days to go before we judge our first photo of the month so get those pictures uploaded soon.
Whilst I am blogging I should probably give you a bit of a wildlife update. Two Little Stints have been feeding on the mud outside the visitor centre since the weekend along with a dunlin and a few Black tailed Godwits. The first Snipe have started appearing at the visitor centre. Their numbers should start increasing rapidly over the next month or so. Nick was out doing some maintenance yesterday and discovered very fresh Otter spraint on the bridge at the start of the board walk at the hide. Perhaps the weirdest sighting was of a Kingfisher which appeared to go into the old nest hole from the summer. Not sure why it would do this, perhaps it was an inquisitive youngster or an adult making sure it was still there? Migrations still in full swing with the first Meadow Pipits and Siskins flying overhead on the weekend. Plus duck numbers appear to be on the rise, especially teal and shoveler. So this is a pretty good time to have a look around the reserve. Who knows what could turn up!