Monday 1 March 2010

Monday 1st March

What a difference a day makes - lovely blue skies and crisp frost, with some reminants of yesterday, frozen raindrops.  The River Medway had well and truly burst it's banks at the bottom of South Street.  Not a Coot, Moorhen or Kinfisher to be seen and no chnace of checking out for Snipes - the path was totally submerged.
Drawn out by the sunshine, I visited Bradbourne Lake, East Malling again at lunchtime, all the usual suspects, including Black-headed Gulls, no Meds yet although I see some have turned up in Mote Park (http://motepark.blogspot.com/ ).  A couple of Pied Wagtails picked around the side of the lake and the Gadwall pair were skulking at the far end of the lake. 
I found another 'plastic bag' (Little Egret) feeding around the western edge of the lake - posed very well in the sun in it's nuptial plummage, occasionally tossing it's delicate plumes in the air as it groomed itself.
 

4 comments:

Simon said...

Nice frozen raindrops shot! Well done with the Little Egret - the Mote Park bird appears to have gone missing, I wonder if this is it?!

Greenie said...

Adam ,
Nice to see a proper Little Efret this time !
As I crossed the river on the A21 at Haysden , the whole area was a lake .

Phil said...

Hi Adam, nice pictures again, haven't seen egret for a while now.
My last memory of Bradbourne lake was aged about 6 or 7 it used to be full of Trout then.

Warren Baker said...

Much better Egrets Adam :-) Got quite near to it, normally they fly off off as soon as they see you.