A lovely day for visiting a couple reserves in the Cotswold Water park today. I packed up some sandwiches and made my way to Lower Moor Farm. From Hide 1 I saw cormorants, blue tits, great tits, dunnock, bullfinches, wren, robin, chaffinches and reed bunting. From Hide 2 I saw a kingfisher at a distance. There had been some otters around earlier and while I was in the hide someone pointed out one over at the other bank, but I missed it as I was looking at the bird feeding station! A few photos from Lower Moor farm are below.
wren
dunnock
bluetit
bullfinch
female chaffinch
reed bunting
robin
reed bunting
kingfisher zoomed in!
general view of lake
From Lower Moor Farm I made my way to Blakehill Nature Reserve to see if I could spot the short eared owls that are hunting there at this time of year, With the aid of some other bird spotters, I managed to locate at least one at a distance,
distant view of short eared owl hunting
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