Great trip to Planstsbrook Local Nature Reserve this morning where it was nice and crisp with lovely blue skies for most of the visit.
Obviously there were a lot of Tits and Finches around but I've never seen and heard so many Robins as I have today, they were everywhere today, including all around all three pools and in bushes and trees.
The waterfowl were abundant on all the pools but espeically the larger one, clearly there were a lot of Mallard, Coot and Moorhen but it was also great to see, Shoveler, Goosander, Gadwall as well as the resident Muscovy Duck and two new birds, a lovely pair of Domestic Ducks who seem to be a real pair as when one did anything the other copied it straight away, on the smaller pool held a Little Egret in the left hand corner as you enter form the car park while the medium pool had a Grey Heron fishing in it's usual left hand corner, a spot the Heron's have always loved since my very first visit.
Birds seen today were, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Coal Tit, Chaffinch, Robin, Dunnock, Wren, Starling, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Cormorant, Shoveler, Goosander, Gadwall, Great Crested Grebe, Muscovy Duck, Domestic Duck, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot and Canada Goose.
The only bad thing about the visit was seeing a Coot with a bad leg which was being bullied by the other Coots, unfortunately it looked like the injury was down to where 'fishermen' have discarded fishing line as it was halfway up the leg, this is something which really, really annoys me, especially when these people will tell you that they love wildlife.
It was great to the place being well cared for and people are actually taking pride in this wonderful location of which I will definitely paying a lot more visits to this year.
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