{"id":4275,"date":"2018-06-13T22:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T21:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2018-06-13T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T21:28:50","slug":"30-days-wild-2018-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/30-days-wild-2018-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days Wild 2018 – Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening on the way home from work I spent about an hour at Wildlife Trusts Whelford Pools<\/a>.  This is the first time I have visited this year.  I only went to the first hide but it was nice to see the regular birds there: 2 swans and a cygnet, 4 black headed gulls, common tern, 4 great crested grebe & 3 young, 3 tufted ducks, a woodpigeon, a herring gull, 24 cormorants, a coot, a lesser black backed gull and a magpie.  There were also a few smaller birds that flitted in front of the hide although I didn’t get a good enough look at them to enable identification.<\/p>\n

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The most interesting event of the evening was watching a lesser black backed gull (I think, I’m not great at gull identification!) catching what I think was a crayfish!  It will be nice to visit again soon and go on to the second hide; I’m yet to see a kingfisher this year and I was lucky enough to see one there last year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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