TL:DR – Tick list of wildlife from my return to the reserves.
Finally, managed a half-decent walk (4km) around a local nature reserve with Mrs Sciencebase this morning after weeks of sporadically atrocious weather, work commitments, and a crippling rip in my Achilles tendon. Nice to be back among the reeds and water espying and hearing all kinds of wildlife:
Birds
Bittern (flypast), Black-headed Gull, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Cetti’s Warbler (calls from three), Coot, Cormorant, Crane (very distant), Great Crested Grebe, Greylag Goose, Heron, Kestrel, Lapwing, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Linnet, Little Grebe, Magpie, Mallard, Marsh Harrier (three or four), Meadow Pipit, Mute Swan, Pheasant, Pochard, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler (calls from at least three), Rook, Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler, Shoveler, Skylark, Stock Dove, Swallow, Wigeon, Wood Pigeon.
Mammals
Chinese Water Deer, Hare
Lepidoptera
Large White
You can find my photos of all of those species on my Imaging Storm website.