Changes - David Bowie

 Reguarded as the highest gale force of the year thus far our hopes of getting 'out in the field' were low but, Faint Heart never won Fair Lady!

A cursory wander around Home Turf produced nothing more than yet another Mottled Umber, which we will not lumber you with yet another image, and then by way of a CHANGE it was off to

LONGHAM LAKES
where Birds and / or Other were by no means numerous

but a decent start was afforded by this 'fly-in'

LITTLE EGRET

with its larger cousin

GREAT WHITE EGRET

landing fairly close by.
Similarly, and again unusual, only a single

COMMON GULL
across the whole of the wander while of the Waterfowl lots of

POCHARD

female

a few
WIGEON

male
were mostly in flight, while the lone

LITTLE EGRET
obligingly appeared from behind the 'island' as

REED BUNTING
and

KINGFISHER
were also represented by singles.

It took an age to find
GREAT CRESTED GREBE

and then only c2 which also applied to

GADWALL
The final encounter was like lightning striking in the same place twice as again a single

RING-NECKED PARAKEET
was just about seen but roundly heard at the very location of our last visit.

There had been a single report in the interim on the
Dorset Birds Website
while these images, from the archive, do not represent the poor views we were afforded on the day!