UK Wildlife Blog

The coots were up to there usual aggressive antics - in fact asplit second after i took this shot all hell broke loose, but of course calmed down before I was ready (or rather my camera ) for another shot.

Also about was this nice male pochard

and this male red-crested pochard

I wandered over to the bridges at the west end of the lake where this moorhen was sunbathing

And there were 3 male wood ducks swimming round - but as always with this species for some reason,the light (even on a bright sunny day like today) wasn't good enough/camera wouldn't focus when it was in the sun. Its my jinx species! I did get one half decent shot though

Also present was this lovely male pintail

accompained by this female pintail

The male at a couple of points started flapping his wings and ai got a few half decent shots of this


Someone was also feeding the 'ducks' alothough no one told these black headed gulls!

On the way out I encountered this rather obliging Juvenile gull, which Im reasonably sure is a herring gull.

And last but not least, what I believe is a common gull, which will be a first photo and first definate common gull for me - if it is one!

All in all a good lunch hour