Marsh Lane & Whitacre Heath

Usual Sunday visit to Marsh Lane was pretty poor today, no new ticks and a count that was struggling to  reach even 30! So after an hour and a half we gave up and headed for Whitacre Heath for a chance of the Kingfishers.

The minute we arived at the Main pool hide we knew the Kingfisher was going to be a no show, as the main pool was no longer a pool! Its now just a dry mud field with some reeds sticking out of it!

Ok we thought, lets go and see if the stilt hide over looking the scrape is the same -

A tiny bit of water still remains, but its not gonna last for long!

We sat for a couple of hours wondering if the Kingfisher would put an appearance in, but he did'nt :-(
So we killed the boredom with some Common Whitethroat and Blue Tit shots..