May 2023
30.04.23 : RSPB Leighton Moss, Sliverdale, Lancashire
Early morning start and a trip to Leioghton Moss to get there before the half term crowds descended and so glad I did. The Eric Morecambe hides were alive with bird call and Black headed gulls , Aovocets, Godwits, Little and Great Egrets and shoveler duck. There was aloso a spoonbill, but too distant to be able to get a picture, but perhaps the saddest thing was the number of dead birds, gulls mainly dotted around the pools, victims of the avian flu that still rumbles on.
A trip to the main reserve and the Grisedal hide rewarded me with views of the Marsh harriers hunting and feeding the young with many attempts to pass voles or mice in the aire. The grey Heron was back and forth over the water and the Greylag geese with young were also around. A quick but very rewarding trip out the this perfect place
