Heronry visit, Macclesfield Forest - Weds 13th June 2012

Seven of us, led by Kate, had a great walk through Macc Forest on our way to the island where the Herons nest and bring up their young. We stopped at a viewing point after about 20mins of chatting and walking at a good pace and admired the fantastic view. As we looked down over the reservoir and to where we'd parked our cars, we also glanced around us and saw a young deer watching us from further down the path. He stayed for some time watching us watching him!, but we weren't able to get close enough to take a decent photo. We continued walking to the heronry and, although there weren't many nests with young when we got there (we probably should have visited a few weeks earlier), we did see a heron fly into it's nest while we watched. As we walked along Teggs Nose reservoir on our way back to meet Tim at the pub, we saw a female mandarin duck with 8 ducklings swimming along ......aaaaahhhhh! What a lovely way to spend an evening and admire the wildlife:-)