Tuesday 13 October 2015

Weston Turville Osprey and Wheatears at Startop's

In my week off in september a nice morning took me down to Weston Turville to see if I could see the Osprey hunting as i never seen any hunting in this country. So after a nice walk down to the hide with warblers singing and a few Jays oversgot to the hide where it had been sitting in its usual tree and after a little while it got up and started hunting and had a few goes but with no success it got chased off by the local magpies. So decided to walk down to the side of the lake and see if it would reappear which after a little while it did and gave super hunting views before catching a fish and which point it vanished to go and feed up,

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Heron in the early morning light

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Fly over jay

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Osprey in the tree with the magpies

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Osprey hunting

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And off with with the fish

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Then headed around the Tring Reservoirs to see what was around where the birds of note was a nice family group of 3 Wheatear at Startop's Reservoir showing well around the NW corner before at leat 2 birds flew up into the nearby tree after getting flushed by a dog.

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Wheatear by the waters edge
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