Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
Common Crane
Jackdaw
Teal
With a few spare days of annual leave to take before the end of September we took up our photography prize won last summer of a long weekend at Mill Meadow Eco lodges in Somerset. With the lads being in school on the Friday I travelled ahead of the family to get a bit of birding in on the way.
With chances of a rarity being slim I started at Slimbridge for a few hours. The weather was glorious and made the light perfect for photographs. The session started well as I found two Curlew Sandpipers in the Rushy pen. They were joined by a dozen glorious Ruff, Green & Common Sandpipers, Snipe and plenty of recently arrived Teal.
I saw nine Common Crane around the reserve, it's shame all their rings as so big as it makes them appear very cumbersome. There were two distant Garganey on view from the Ziess hide but it was fairly quiet in terms of birds and visitors.
I did check in on the South Lake but the species on show were just the same as elsewhere. The restaurant appears to be having a make over so I opted to head further down the M5 towards Somerset.
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