On reaching home, I packed a few sandwiches and headed off to Coate Water, which I hadn't visited for a while. For a change I decided to go straight down to Hide 2. After stopping to look at some goldcrests in the hedgerow, I sat in the hide for a while. It was pretty quiet: a few shovelers, gadwall, canada geese, cormorant, mallards, on the water, around the hide were chaffinch, dunnock, bluetit, great tit, etc so I threw out some bird food onto the mud at the water's edge to the right of the hide. Within a short time I saw first one water rail, then a second one, both feeding at the same time.
Stopping off at Hide 1, birds noted were: grey heron, goosanders, teal, mallard, coot, moorhen, greylag geese, on the feeders I saw great tit, goldfinch, blue tit, coal tit, long tailed tits, dunnock. robin, and greater spotted woodpecker.
chaffinch
fluttering goldcrest!
great tit
greater spotted woodpecker
shoveler
one water rail...
...two water rails
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