canada goose
grey wagtail
grey wagtail - I love the colour of these birds
pochard
Egyptian goose
willow bursting into bloom
Saturday, 11 March 2017
SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR A CHANGE...
A mild spring Saturday so decided to head over to Thatcham Nature Discovery centre which is owned by the Bucks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife trust. I got there before the centre opened so stopped for a while in front of the centre where various water fowl were gathered. A variety of species to be seen... including canada geese, egyptian geese, mallards, pochard, moorhens, coots. Then I took a walk around the lake, and noted tufted duck, cormorants, black headed gulls.
On returning to the visitor centre I borrowed a key to the reed bed hide, on the way I passed another lake with gadwall, more pochards and tufted ducks on it, and noted blue tits, long tailed tits and great tits in the hedgerows. Sadly the hide didn't give great views of anything as it was awaiting the cutting of the reeds in front of it, but I decided to continue the trail, toward the canal, where a couple of grey wagtail were flitting about.
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