What have you seen

GL Is the pool you use to spot KF on the right of the golf course car park?

Called in at Minsmere today, most interesting thing around was an adder trying to get some heat from the sun.

Adder at Minsmere

Skylarks singing and flying high over the moors this morning - magic.

Op

Adder looks good, nicely framed, was it on what they call the'Adder trail'?  This is an almost guaranteed place to find them, although you still have to search for them.

Yes, to the lake, in a large earth bank.

I have to say it, although I'm sure you know...you cannot approach a known Kingfisher nest and set up a camera within 100 yards.....having said that, if you are walking past on the path and can find where they fish from, you may get lucky.  It is a proper path with plenty of dog walkers using it.

Of course, you may have a lens that will allow you to set up well away from the nest site, assuming they are there this year.

Thanks for info GL, it was a Sunday morning when I went there and just so many folk around I guessed they wouldn't make an appearance.

Adder was on the 'trail'

You're spot on Pliers, they are magic. Watched a couple of competing males today singing their heads off. We walked up the beach area from Wirral CP site to Red Rocks, just passed West Kirby and had Curlews calling and about 40 Purple Sandpipers on the rocks in the Marine. Also loads of Common Frogs bubbling away in a pond on the nature trail near Red Rocks.

Op

Content this morning with the Barn owl, hunting for half an hour, then digesting the catch for an hour.  Sitting on a fallen tree, it didn't move and in the end  I gave up.  It looks as though this owl will perform like those over the past years, hunting till 10.00, maybe back late PM.

By the time my wife visited two friends and I waited in the car, the Bungay waxwings were gone....I tried to show that I didn't mind, failed dismally.

Tomorrow rain due and oil change on van....might be kept busy.

Tonight in the lamp light just outside the gate to the floating harbour at the Bristol Baltic Wharf site there is Heron fishing.

Hi Brue

I guess you know the area quite well, but if not, There are a pair of Perigrines that are getting amorous in the Avon Gorge. Just drive around the top of the Gorge on the Downes side, and you will come across an information board on a sharp bend. The birds can be seen flying past quite close and in trees across the gorge. Also at Castle Park  adjacent to the shopping area. Nesting and hunting along the river near Fingles reach.

St Johns church in Bath also has a pair.

There are nice walks through the Ashton Court estate, which is about 2/3 miles from you. There are 2 deer herds (red and not sure about the other) to be seen.

The Waxwings were still at Tesco Bradley Stoke yesterday, but picture two shows them with lots to eat, the other shows we are close to losing them as the cupboard is nearly bare.

Enjoy Bristol.

Good shots BM. 22 x Waxwings at Ole Frank pub in Oulton Broad, will be passing there in 15 minutes so will have a look.  Later on will wander down to Oulton marshes to see if SEO are about.