Thursday 14 September 2017

Eastern Cleddau osprey

To get some fresh air and away from the computers for a while, we had a look at the upper reaches of the Daugleddau. It was generally very quiet for birds, with hardly any obvious wildfowl and very few waders in the area. However we did have excellent almost overhead views of the local osprey at Landshipping.

It came over from the west, carrying a fish. It circled around above, and eventually headed to a feeding perch high up in a tree above the Eastern Cleddau shore. It had quite an easy flight path to its perch too. There were 100 or so mixed gulls in the area; none of these, nor the local ravens, crows and a buzzard took any obvious interest in it.