Ham Wall RSPB - Sun 24 Feb

An afternoon trip out with the family and we again made for Ham Wall for obvious reasons. On reaching the second viewing platform it was a completely different picture than last weekend, with just a single birder present...but some things don't change...the grebe was not showing. A Marsh Harrier flew over and spooked the gathered birds and this actually has a positive result as the Pied-billed Grebe finally gave itself up! Four attempts and at last I got this mega Somerset tick...and get these for classic photos (in my defence it was miles away and the light was fading!):

 

We didn't hang around too long as we needed to get home in time for Tristan's dinner and we barely paid note to the Great White Egret feeding on the reed fringe from the first viewing platform. So all good things come to those who wait, and let's hope my run of bad results with birds is at an end...just in time for Spring migration!
UK list for 2013 now at 128 species.