Decided to have an early morning visit to Old Moor to count the Little Egrets leaving the roost for a change. I arrived at the Wath Ings Hide at 04.40, it was still dark and I heard Black Headed Gull, Oystercatcher, LBB Gull and Lapwing walking to the hide. I could see 1 Little Egret in the Willows and the first signs of movement was actually 2 Cormorants into the roost at 04.50, had they been night fishing?
I first heard the Egrets calling at 04.56 and the first 10 flew out and up the valley at 05.03. These were followed by 1 @ 05.05, 4 @ 05.08, 2 @ 05.23, 3 @ 05.38 and finally 8 @ 05.47. All the Egrets left up the valley apart from 3 which left down the valley. The Cormorants were flying out and then back in all the time and there were still 14 in the willows when I left
There were 5 Barn Owls out hunting, 3 around the hide and 2 on the Reedbeds, also on the Main Marsh were 5 Kingfishers, 2 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers.
On the Wader Scrape were 2 juvenile Shelduck, 1 juvenile Avocet, 4 Redshank, 2 Dunlin and 3 Oystercatchers.
A walk onto the Reedbeds revealed at least 6 Reed Warblers singing??
After a cuppa at home and breakfast in the Old Moor Café I had a drive down to Adwick Washland. There is not a lot of water left at Adwick but there were 5 Grey Herons, 4 Little Egrets, 120 Grey Lag Geese, 122 Lapwings, 1 adult and 1 juvenile Avocet and 1 Sparrowhawk.
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