A quiet day at Stanwick Lakes

Densie moored at Stanwick Lakes

 We are not moving today as we want to have a good look around the nature reserve/country park. It successfully blends a day out for all the family providing Adventure Playgrounds and picnic areas with somewhere of great interest to wild life enthusiasts, especially bird watchers.

Walking around the 700 acre site in the morning we talked to a couple who had seen cattle egrets, so we looked in the most likely areas but saw nothing.  We did also talk to a ranger who showed us where otters may be seen in the evening.  So we are planning on an early dinner and a stroll just before sunset.

Cattle egret with cow(camera set to 30X magnification)

In the afternoon I had another walk to areas of the reserve we had not visited in the morning and was very pleased to get a distant view and photograph of a cattle egret pecking around a large cow, so not much chance of a mistaken identity.  Cattle egrets, which holiday makers to the Mediterranean will have seen perched on the top of cattle, were rare visitors to this country but have recently moved in permanently and this area is one of very few places where they bred this year.

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