Here's a selection of photos from a recent trip to Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve:
Here's the full list of what I saw:
- Water Rail - superb views for photographs from Lancaster Hide
- Brambling - only a brief glimpse at the visitor centre
- Reed Bunting - great to see lots of them in the reed beds
- Jay
- Nuthatch
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Chaffinch
- Bullfinch
- Greenfinch
- Tree Sparrow
- Blue Tit
- Great Tit
- Coal Tit
- Long-tailed Tit
- Dunnock
- Robin - loads of them being very aggressive with each other
- Starling
- Woodpigeon - a good few thousand in a single flock
- Blackbird
- Magpie
- Carrion Crow
- Teal - a good few hundred on the frozen water - never seen so many
- Goosander - five or six males circling the water, landing and taking off again
- Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Mallard
- Coot
- Moorhen
- Pheasant
- Kestrel - over nearby field
- 3 rats
- 1 rabbit
- 1 grey squirrel
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