Own Transport Trip to Lakenheath RSPB
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Sixteen hardy souls ventured out into the wind and the rain at RSPB Lakenheath, after enjoying the facilities of the new(ish) visitor centre for the first time. We found a good variety of raptors (hobby, common buzzard, kestre, sparrowhawk and marsh harrier) but the star birds were undoubtedly a pair of common cranes (a first for many of our party), located in a stubble field on the north side of the river, exactly where the kind information officer had told us they were likely to be! In the afternoon we had improved weather and even some sunshine, which tempted a good selection of dragonflies and butterflies into the air! Our bird list (a relatively modest 43 species) is as follows:
Bittern, blackbird, blackcap, buzzard, coot, cormorant, common crane, crow, collared dove, stock dove, tufted duck, spotted flycatcher, gadwall, goldfinch, great crested grebe, little grebe, black-headed gull, lesser black-backed gull, marsh harrier, heron, hobby, jackdaw, kestrel, magpie, mallard, house martin, moorhen, feral pigeon, wood pigeon, rook, shoveler, snipe, sparrowhawk, starling, swallow, mute swan, swift, teal, reed warbler, whitethroat, greater spotted woodpecker, green woodpecker, wren.
