Today five of us met at the Leather's Smithy, Langley at 3:30pm and went for a short walk via Ridgegate Reservoir to the herony viewpoint on Trentabank Reservoir. There we met Sarah Bujac, her newborn daughter Isla and Sarah's mum and dad. We all spent twenty minutes bird watching and saw several herons, five heron nests and a dozen cormorants nesting in trees on the far bank. We shared between us the binoculars and monocular that we'd brought. Presumably the herons in the nests were unfledged chicks whose parents were out hunting. From time to time there was commotion from the heronry but generally it was very quiet.
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| Grey heron (but not one we saw!) |
During the walk we also saw two mandarin ducks (confirmed by Megan via Google Images on 4G), one grebe, a buzzard, other unidentified ducks and a shoal of small fish. We walked back to the Leather's Smithy for 5:30pm and had a meal and drinks lasting two hours. Five of us had the Wild Boar Burger as recommended by Kate, and agreed it was a very good choice!
Thanks to Kate for leading the walk and to Sue for booking the table.
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