Stroll at Godmanchester Reserve
I couldn't stay at home on such a beautiful morning so made a short trip to our local Nature Reserve at Godmanchester. Everything was calm and still apart from the sound of birds and ducks and a few dog walkers. My first stop was the hide where I spotted a couple of oyster catchers pecking amongst the grass. I then walked around the lake through hedged paths, open meadows and woodland with sightings of the usual garden and woodland birds but also a female bullfinch and a treecreeper. Plenty of wigeon in and around the lake together with the usual blackheaded, common and lesser blackbacked gulls. Geese were also in evidence on the meadows comprising Egyptian, Canada and greylag with a single white variety amongst them mixing with several little egrets. Also coot, moorhen, great crested grebes, cormorants, mute swan and mallards. A beautiful walk to be repeated as the seasons change I think. Entrance to reserve oyster catcher Egyptian geese