Monday 6 June 2016

Cuckoo and more at Lakenheath

With my usual late spring visit to Lakenheath had a pleasant and warm walk around this year i noticed there were a lot more Reed Warbler than the Sedge Warbler sat around the first point for a while and was lucky enough to get some nice views of the Reed warbler going into feed their nest in the reeds.

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Reed warbler Collecting

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Reed Warbler bring back food
Then walked around the trail where there was plenty of Insects on the wing with Four-spot Chaser, lots of Hairy Dragonflies and a nice mix of Damselflies out. So with all the insects these brought all the Swifts outs often flying low over the reed beds.

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Blue-tailed Damselfly 

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Hairy Dragonfly

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Swift in flight
Then hang around the tree near the heard and was rewarded with a pair off Cuckoos having a Cuckoo-off  with a bird flying around every so often over my head.

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Cuckoo in flight

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Then walked down to the main viewing point where I had warblers in song and a few hunting Marsh Harriers and to end a great day a Bittern flew over.

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Hunting Marsh Harrier

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Flythrough Bittern























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