Peter Tonkin and I revisited Stithians Stuart Hutchings and Southern cut-off hide last week to check if the Great Spotted Woodpecker fledglings were still working the area, We only saw one bird but it looked to be doing very well and it was interesting to note that its juvenile red cap was beginning to fade out.
Water levels were expectantly low and all vegetation around the hide high but we enjoyed our visit while snapping away at the images posted below.
This juvenile Grey Heron appeared to be displaying but we could not see any other Heron in the area.
We were seasonally surprised to note several Lapwing working the margins
There were around a dozen mature Cormorants occupying all of the large rocks around the water margins of the main reservoir.
And five or six juvenile Grey Heron resting up between bouts of fishing the margins
Back on the cut-off the displaying Grey Heron eventually took to fishing the margins amid masses of flowering water plants before flying off to join the heron on the main reservoir
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