Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Hobby's and Purple Heron

As I pulled up at Dengemarsh this morning the Purple Heron made a short flight landing near Springfield Bridge. Waiting on the bridge for it to hopefully show again, it was hard to believe that it was June as I was wearing 2 Fleeces, hat and gloves. After a short wait the Purple Heron stalked from behind the tall reeds, showing its head and neck and the top of its back for next hour giving great scope views before briefly stepping into full view though still difficult to photograph through the waving reeds. Shortly after it flew to Christmas Dell then back to Dengemarsh and continued to be seen in flight on and off all day.


 Hobby's were much in evidence until the clouds rolled in with c10 hunting over the reserve, also 3+ Marsh Harriers, a Bittern was seen on several occasions flying over the reed bed, several Bearded Tits, a Greenshank over, 2 Yellow Wagtails and the Red-crested Pochard.

At the viewing ramp this Hairy Hawker eating a bee.(probably one of the introduced ones) 

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