WWT Washington Wetland Centre

 First, thanks to CB for finding me in another hide then putting me onto my second ever Jack Snipe. It was then seen by a few other delighted birders. It proved to be a cracking morning out with some great birds seen including Iceland Gull and Russian White-fronted Goose among other things.

Jack Snipe.

Iceland Gull.

A couple of Lesser Black-backed Gulls took exception to it being there

And chased it off.

It soon came back.

Russian White-fronted Goose.

I saw only one Avocet while I was there.

However, I could not count the number of Shelduck, they were everywhere.

Those Lesser Black-backed Gulls.

Black-headed Gulls displaying.

Lapwing.

Tufted Duck.

Way behind

It’s getting on for a couple of weeks since I took the first lot of these images and nearly a week for the last lot. Anyway here they are.

Male Pied Flycatcher

It has attitude

So has this female

Yet butter wouldn’t melt

The Flycatchers had a lot to put up with they were forever chasing off other birds including this Jay

And this Woodpecker

On the moors were Meadow Pipit feeding young

A different Meadow Pipit again feeding young

Another day a different place. Sedge Warbler singing among the reeds

A Lapwing chick

Avocet

A very distant Spoonbill

Ringed Plover

In flight

Pectoral Sandpiper

Little Stint

Dunlin

Turnstone

I was driving to the Drift Café for breakfast when I saw this Barn Owl sitting on a fence post. I stopped the car and managed to fire off half a dozen shots before it flew off.

Distant Glossy Ibis

It took this Heron five minutes to get the Eel down its neck

These Bees were on the Churchyard wall in our village for a couple of days