Its oh so quiet...
shh. shh.
Its oh so still...
shh. shh
And that's about it. One of the quietist days birdwatching I have ever had at Trimley. There were some ducks about, some waders as well. The pools seen from the hides had only a couple of birds on them. I'd sit for a while, and when nothing turned up just moved on, it wasn't really a time to reward my patience. It seems the bad couple of weeks of torrential rain and even hail at times has badly affected the nesting birds, with very few young about.
Loompit lake was definitely the most affected with only one COOT and GREAT CRESTED GREBE pair about and only two pairs of POCHARD. Usually a few pairs of GADWALL nest but not this year. However the late nesting TUFTED DUCK were relatively unharmed with at least ten pairs present here and at Trimley.
A pair of COMMON TERN were flying over the Trimley Reservoir, so must be nesting nearby, and a RINGED PLOVER was on the Winter Flood.
Cattle were out grazing the grasslands with large numbers of SWIFTS wheeling above, and the breeding waders tumbling and calling through the air whenever a CROW appeared. It was all very evocative of a landscape now lost except for a precious few acres.
So there you go, very quiet indeed, with not much about, and a day I'd just forget, if it wasn't for these great photos of fledged GREAT TITS, in one of the many tree belts that criss-cross the Trimley Estate. They almost look like paintings.
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