Tuesday, 1 May 2018

COOMBE HILL MEADOWS

An afternoon's trip to Coombe Hill Meadows near Gloucester, where I followed the towpath alongside the old canal, then paid a visit to the hide which overlooks the scrapes and wetlands. 

Birds  of note along the canal included blackcap, chiffchaff, grey heron and a coot family whilst on the scrape there was a nice selection  of ducks and waders etc. These included redshank, curlew, lapwing, black tailed godwit,oyster catcher, gadwall, mallard, pintail, canada geese, black headed gulls, lesser black backed gulls, also a swallow. Sadly not the garganey I had hoped for. 

On the butterfly front I saw brimstones, small tortoiseshell, orange tip and green veined white. 
towpath alongside the old canal

grey heron 

the scrapes viewed from the hide

coot family 

curlew

redshank

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