Fowlmere RSPB / Broom East GPs

A bit of a change today, deciding to head over to my closest RSPB reserve at Fowlmere.

It was generally very quiet but the Barn Owl showed really well as it sat in its nesting box viewed from the Reedbed hide.

A female Bullfinch and a Treecreeper were seen on the walk round.

In the afternoon, I headed over to Broom where over 300 Lapwing passed overhead, none of which stopped to settle on the pits.

I carried out minimum counts of the wildfowl with the following results:

51 Wigeon

48 Gadwall

37 Teal

5 Shoveler

4 Common Pochard

3 Little Grebe

Also of note were five Skylark, two Yellowhammer, a single Common Snipe, and 15 Common Gull.