Attenborough Nature Reserve
Canal boats moored at Beeston Marina looking towards Clifton Hall.
The day started quietly enough with no sightings worthy of note, so I tried to get to grips with some of the calls our friends make. Having heard one I would not leave the area until I traced the source. Sometimes this was in vain as the source would skulk in the dense foliage of a large tree. Others I tracked down, turned out to be birds I ought to have known in the first place. Anyway it was following the sighting of the Cetti's, which I could not abandon until I tried for that elusive photograph, which again ended in failure, that my luck began to improve. Next was a Garden Warbler, then a Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, at this point I thought I'd be a fool not to use some of this luck and get a Lottery ticket. Luck. No way. This was my finely acquired tracking skills coming to the fore. All those months of graft were paying off. But it doen't end there. If the excitement is getting too much for you, I suggest you revisit the site at a later date when you've calmed down. There's plenty more to come! Following that lot came a Blackcap, a pair of Linnets and a Willow Warbler. All I needed were the Grasshopper and the Reed Warbler to complete the lot! The Reed Warbler was no problem. The reed beds in Clifton Pond were alive with them. The Grasshopper was nowhere to be found. Still would you believe a Dunlin and Common Sandpiper were on the scrapes. Apparently a Turnstone had been spotted the day before. Must have followed us home from Bridlington. Well that completed a brilliant day. I doubt I could have kept up that level of concentration for any longer and besides I was more than happy.
Delta Hide.
Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, Linnet, Goldfinch, Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Oyster Catcher,. Common Tern, Swift, Sand Martin, Wren.
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