I haven’t been to Wildlife Trust’s Lower Moor Farm since January, so I thought it was about time I made another visit and went along this afternoon. I’m not sure if it was the weather or I just picked the wrong time of day but there didn’t seem to be much bird life about! There was a cormorant sat on a post, a few woodpigeon’s flying from tree to tree, a black headed gull, a grey heron flew over and a family of mute swans were on Cottage lake. There were smaller birds flitting from tree to tree but everything seemed to be hiding away in all the leaf cover.
The most exciting event of the afternoon was spotting my first orchid – a common spotted-orchid. I have probably seem them before but no knowingly so!
Also there are loads of froglets! One poor little chap had got himself caught in spiders webs on the floor of the hide, so after carefully removing the web from his back legs I placed him safely back outside. The walk back to the car was slow and careful, I counted 28 froglets 🙂
