We walked down to Landshipping Quay in quite sunny weather late this morning (well before Storm Aileen started to blow) in order to do our weekly butterfly transect.
On route, we noted c. 50-60 greylags flying over, perhaps looking for good feeding areas. It was high tide at the time and we noted at least 11 little egrets roosting in trees over on the Fowborough-side of the channel.
Interestingly we were at Cosheston Pill from about 12:30 to 12:45 (near the former water-sports area) on Monday. We were doing a WeBs count on the falling tide but seemingly missed the osprey there reported by Brian. Perhaps this is a good illustration of "being at the right place at just the right time (or in our case perhaps the wrong time)"!
Today though, we had an albeit distant view of an osprey as it roosted on a low branch in a sheltered sunny embayment near the Western and Eastern Cleddau junction. We presumed this to be the one that has been previously reported in this general area recently, and so pleasing to see one up here anyway.
