A visit to the patch mid-morning failed to produce yesterday's Night Heron, mind you it spent all day deep in cover yesterday. The last sighting was of it in flight at around 10.30pm last night, so I guess it may have moved on. In fact there was very little to be seen from the northern causeway so I popped down to the southern end for a walk.
Amazingly, I bumped in to a person walking two dogs, just metres past two large signs stating No Dogs, obviously the sign didn't refer to them! However, after a polite word they soon left. It's a shame that some people simply don't think the rules apply to them. Anyway, rant over and back to the birds, or lack of as the case may be!
Well it wasn't all doom and gloom as I finally added Lesser Whitethroat to my patch year list, with a singing male in the hedgerow behind the Canoe Club, better late than never. A couple of Ravens were also present and on the breeding front, one of the Mute Swan pairs have four cygnets, several pairs of Great Crested Grebes have young (probably around thirty young birds present), and there were two good broods of Mallards with pretty well-developed young.
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