Hello!
Here's what I have been doing in the last week! Didn't get up to much at the start of the week but on Thursday evening we went to Minsere where we met up with my aunty and uncle for an evening of wildlife watching.
Unfortunately we didn't really see a great deal, such is the way with wildlife watching sometimes, and some of the best things we did see were too quick for a photo, such as the bearded tits and 3 of the fledgling woodpeckers that featured on Springwatch, we also sat in Canopy Hide for a while and heard something walking around but we didn't see it, we think it might have been a hedgehog.
What I did manage to get photos of was the Sand Martins, loads of them had landed in the reeds at Island Mere and then we went to see where they were nesting and saw some of the babies poking their heads out of the burrows.
On Saturday evening we had a lovely walk around Strumpshaw Fen, it was quite late in the day so no dragonflies or butterflies but we did see a lovely caterpillar, I don't know what he will turn into, I will try and find out and let you know! We also enjoyed watching the barn owl hunting, watching chinese water deer and hares grazing in the meadow and saw a water vole swimming across the water. As we were leaving we sat at Reception Hide for a while and a kingfisher came along.
On Sunday, Matthew was working at Minsmere so I went with him for a day pottering around Minsmere! Withink 5 minutes of sitting in Bittern Hide I had seen 3 bitterns flying past! They were too far away and moving too fast so I didn't even try for a photo and just preferred to watch them, the same as I did with the kingfisher that flew past too.
There were loads of meadow brown and ringlet butterflies around, so hard to get photos of as they flit about so quickly, but I did manage a few.
I saw another green woodpecker, it flew past me so I spent a while looking in the trees to see where it landed, turns out it was on the grass next to me and I didn't realise until it was too late for a photo!
No bearded tits today but lots of reed warblers flitting around and several juvenile herons all scruffy and prehistoric looking.
There were also a lot of fish to be seen, I don't really know anything about fish but there were a few stickelbacks near Island Mere, they are a very beautiful blue colour.
Oh, not forgetting the highland cows they now have grazing there, so cute!!
I think that's pretty much it, thanks for reading! I will leave you will this photo of a lovely common blue butterfly I saw on Saturday whilst in Dereham with my friend Liz. xxxx
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