The sun was hot and the sea warm at Cliff End today, but the sudden arrival of a dense crowd of gulls around me was a bit unnerving…
Then I realised that they were snatching dead fish from the water - Mackerel and Horse Mackerel I think - some half as long as the Herring Gulls themselves. Noisy disputes ensued, with a few Lesser Black-back Gulls proving dominant while the smaller Black-headed Gulls were bystanders. Read the rest of this entry »
So far this week sightings on the reserve have included ruff, dunlin, bar tailed godwit, common sandpiper, green sandpiper and greenshank. Yesterday on the 23rd four raven were spotted flying purposefuly over the reserve.
Toad Rush is one of the small rushes at Castle Water and grows on the bare muddy margins. This is just the habitat that the alien New Zealand Pigmyweed likes and you can see from the photo that the rush (centre) is about to engulfed. The pigmyweed is widespread in the RX area, click here for previous postings. So, which will win?
