Nina P
Nina
I have had a very interesting visit to Bowling green marsh, and several points of the Bude canal water areas.
BGM,
Monday 1st September,
Went into the hide and found several keen birders, with large scopes spotting many different birds for me,these are some of them.
Spoonbill,
Black tailed godwits
Wimbrel
curlew sandpiper
tufted duck
little egtrets
cormorants,
dunlin
Avocets
common sandpiper
greylag geese
canada geese
lapwing
redshank
sanderling
knot
shell duck
swallows
all together a fabulous watch, I'd missed the glossy ibis and ruff, and would have loved to stay there but I was loath to leave my dear husband too long, so we went on our way.
Bude water including Tamar lower lake.
The spoon bill stepped out from a bush at the waters edge and then slunk off into the reeds and refused to re-appear, there were two rafts of geese but couldn't decide which ones, so probably canada geese.
crested grebes were there along with 4 herons, and loads of gulls, the swallows and housemartins were in abundance there, and the wild flowers were really stunning, with knapweed and hemp-agrimony.
On the actual canal we saw a White throated diving bird, that may be a cormorant, but it had a pure white throat and breast, and flew up to sit proudly on the roof of one of the properties by the canal edge, right in the setting sun, so was then sillouetted, well worth the stop to stare.
I now feel well and truly satiated. But I also know I missed several so I'll have to go again. Nina.
B :eat: o
BGM,
Monday 1st September,
Went into the hide and found several keen birders, with large scopes spotting many different birds for me,these are some of them.
Spoonbill,
Black tailed godwits
Wimbrel
curlew sandpiper
tufted duck
little egtrets
cormorants,
dunlin
Avocets
common sandpiper
greylag geese
canada geese
lapwing
redshank
sanderling
knot
shell duck
swallows
all together a fabulous watch, I'd missed the glossy ibis and ruff, and would have loved to stay there but I was loath to leave my dear husband too long, so we went on our way.
Bude water including Tamar lower lake.
The spoon bill stepped out from a bush at the waters edge and then slunk off into the reeds and refused to re-appear, there were two rafts of geese but couldn't decide which ones, so probably canada geese.
crested grebes were there along with 4 herons, and loads of gulls, the swallows and housemartins were in abundance there, and the wild flowers were really stunning, with knapweed and hemp-agrimony.
On the actual canal we saw a White throated diving bird, that may be a cormorant, but it had a pure white throat and breast, and flew up to sit proudly on the roof of one of the properties by the canal edge, right in the setting sun, so was then sillouetted, well worth the stop to stare.
I now feel well and truly satiated. But I also know I missed several so I'll have to go again. Nina.
B :eat: o