Garth Peacock
A day in a woodland hide

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Another visit to Welney

Tuesday 8th July 2025

Another session with Owls

Friday 4th July 2025

Little Owls in North Yorkshire

Saturday 28th June 2025

South Lincolnshire

Tuesday 24th June 2025

RSPB Folwmere again

Thursday 12th June 2025

Local for me

Tuesday 10th June 2025

A day of Terns in Norfolk

Friday 6th June 2025

Ouse Fen RSPB Cambs

Friday 9th May 2025

Two unplanned visits

Saturday 3rd May 2025

Grafham Water Cambs

Monday 14th April 2025

An unscheduled visit

Friday 11th April 2025

North Norfolk again and again

Thursday 10th April 2025

Another trip to Norfolk

Thursday 3rd April 2025

Barnwell CP Northamptonshire

Sunday 30th March 2025

North Norfolk again

Tuesday 25th March 2025

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Tuesday 29th November 2022

But first, on 16th, getting bored again, I went to Fen Drayton Lakes for a couple of hours. A birder told me that a Spoonbill was on Moore Lake from the hide. I do not normally walk that far as past experience was a disappointment but this time I did. Sure enough, a juvenile Spoonbill but so far away that the only photo worth keeping was a record shot for the Cambridge Bird Club - not for this website.

A pair of Great White Egrets decided to battle for the rights to fish on a closer island.

That was it.

So, to the intersting part of this blog. A friend had booked a day in a hide at Kettlestone Woods, Norfolk with the well known pro photographer David Tipling. I had been there last year but since then, David had built a new hide and a drinking pool.

Settling in, the usual tits appeared, among the usual, a scruffy Coal Tit

and a Marsh Tit.

A pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers came and went.

And a pair of Jays called to feed

and, with the light improving, even a flight shot.

But the real attraction was Sparrowhawk, first a juvenile dropped in.

and then an adult female spent a long time in front of the hide feeding on a Wood Pigeon carcass.

After a time, we had had our fill of the Sparrowhawk and were pleased when a Buzzard dropped in with the Sparrowhawk making a quick exit.

Starting at 9.00am with varying light conditions, by 2.30  the light had deteriorated so we made our way home, very satisfied with the days results.

On previous days, there had been a lot of rain so bathing birds were attracted to the puddles elsewhere in the wood so no bathing shots but you can't have everything - well not this time!!!