It was very still and peaceful at Farmoor this afternoon.
I walked the length of the causeway where there were good numbers of coots on the water with great crested grebes amongst them. There was a little egret preening on one of the rafts at the far end, with several little grebes in that area too .Sadly, the great northern diver reported over the weekend had gone and I couldn't see the female scaup among the tufted ducks that I saw.
I made my way down to the Shrike Meadow hide but that was quiet apart from some tits on the feeders so I then went on to the Pinkhill Meadow hide. The feeders were busy here, including a reed bunting but my hopes of seeing a water rail feeding beneath them did not materialise.
Walking back over the causeway, I thought the silhouetted birds and boats against the late afternoon sky made some nice photos.
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