BIRD NEWS:569

I have located the birds - apart from the emporer geese. The Bewick's are back in their usual enclosure - with 2 new duck species added to their pond and the red breasted geese have been discovered near the feeding station - but as yet, I have not locted the emporer geese. The Bewicks were back in their own enclosure as I said - along with strangers to the pond from across the path where the Bewicks had been temporarily housed. Maybe this is why they had been popped over the path - to see who they got along with best.

This shows the newcomers to the Bewick enclosure. There were additionally a few mallards, a coot, a wood pigeon...

You can see some of the birds in the above picture. Whilst I hung out with the swans, 2 of the mallards started courting and mating...

I walked along the first pathway towards the lapwing hide and spotted a nesting Canada Goose and a farm duck in the reed beds where the boat trip ambles.

There were actually some lapwings in the lapwing hide on this occasion - usually I see one or none, but today there were 4-5.

There were a bunch of tufted ducks on the reed beds near the lapwig hide today.There was also a magpie on the hedge as I wandered back towards the start of the path. There were actually quite a lot spotted both here and on my next excursion.