Meare Heath NR & Ham Wall RSPB - Sun 16 Mar

A trip up on to the "Avalon Marshes" this afternoon and I after parking at the Ashcott Corner car park I started off by walking out towards Meare Heath as far as Noah's Lake. Despite the sun it was pretty windy so I didn't hold out much hope of seeing much. A couple of Bitterns were heard booming from deep in the reeds and a female Marsh Harrier was seen hunting, and that was pretty much it other than a few duck!
Back to the car park and out on to Ham Wall. I only went as far as the first viewing platform and then out to look at the new hide. There seemed to be even less on this side, but a couple of drake Garganey did liven up the afternoon, even if they did spend most of the time with their butts in the air as the fed.

 

 

 

And that was the end to another trip out and another weekend over!