Lackford Lakes is a compact and very friendly reserve run by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust located in between Elveden and Bury St Edmonds. The numerous hides are well located and well managed overlooking a variety of habitats comprising of reed beds, scrapes and gravel pits.
Our objective was to connect with Kingfishers and we were successful, otherwise the reserve was fairly quiet awaiting the arrival of winter migrants for which it is renowned.
Given the above we decided to relocate to Bakers Fen and Adventurers Fen, Burwell which abuts Wicken Fen on its south western border.
Just before we left whilst we were loading our kit into the car a very showy Chiffchaff was in a hedge no more than ten feet from us, the light quality was superb and really made the birds plumage shine.
Again, Burwells' Fens were fairly quiet, I'm afraid its that time of the year, Little Egrets, little Grebe and a Kingfisher was flitting about and fishing in front of Charlies Hide.
Graham Barker ( https://www.youtube.com/user/gwafilms/videos ) will be posting a video of our trip shortly on his U-tube site.
Heavily cropped.
Nice stills John, the Willow Warbler posed beautifully for you, thanks for the link, film should be posted by Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteAnother reserve added to my list of places to visit, judging from the images it looks like you had a good day.
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