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| Misty scenes from Reception Hide |
This morning started out pretty foggy as the reserve was covered in a thick mist. You couldn't really see much at all. Then the rising sun began to burn it off and things became much clearer. Still, during the time the mist was melting away, there was a sense of subtle beauty complete with delicate decorations in the form of spider webs covering every bit of vegetation. From Fen Hide, blue sky was peeking through but the mist was still thick near ground level and continued to hide the Chinese water deer, mallards and marsh harriers that I could just make out from the gloom.
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| View from Fen Hide |
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| Mute Swan |
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| Spider Web |
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| Autumnal colours |
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| Moorhen |
With the mist gone, I was surprised that the rest of the morning was uneventful. It was now a glorious, bright sunny day that felt like summer repeating itself again, but there wasn't anything from Reception Hide that could make this morning any more exciting. Apart from a heron standing around for well over an hour, the odd marsh harrier and buzzard flying around and a quick flyby of a sparrowhawk, there was just a collection of wildfowl to entertain me. Believe me, though I love seeing wigeon, mallards, gadwall, shovelers, teal and greylags and swans, they just can not match the same interest appeal as a kingfisher, otter or bittern. Time just seemed to drag today and it was rather dull by the end of it. To be honest, I much preferred it when the mist was around.
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| Shoveler |
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| Gadwall |
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| Greylags |
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| Cobber the Black Swan |
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| Coot |
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| Grey Heron |
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| Peacock |
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