Trip reports

Wildfowl at Moor Green Lakes

Sunday, 14 January 2007

On Sunday 14 January 2007 Fleet RSPB Wildlife explorers went to Moor Green Lakes. It was really muddy, but the weather was really good. We walked along the side of the river and we saw a robin, 2 crows, a pair of mallards, 3 moorhens, 8 woodpigeons, a group of long tailed tits with a blue tit, a great tit and a coot. We heard a great spotted woodpecker and we saw a white dead nettle flowering. When we got to the bird hide we saw tufted ducks, lots of wigeon, 3 grey herons, lots of cormorants on the island, gulls, 2 goosanders and 3 shovelers. After we left the hide we walked around the second lake. We saw mute swans, 2 Egyptian geese, 2 pochard diving down loads of times, cormorants on the barrel float and another goosander. In the field on the left we saw a flock of canada geese and behind the canada geese there were some jackdaws. We got back to the car park at exactly 3.30pm.

Trip report by Daniel Dolding