Lackford Lakes

Today we took a trip to Lackford, parking in the village and walking to and around the Lackford Lakes Nature reserve.

We heard a total of 24 different types of bird. although now the trees are in full leaf we could see only those on the lakes. 

Birds identified by the wonderful Merlin app were...

• Blackcap
• Blackbird
• Black-headed Gull
• Blue Tit
• Canada Goose
• Cetti's Warbler
• Chiff-chaff
• Dunnock
• Garden Warbler
• Goldfinch
• Greater Whitethroat
• Great Tit
• Green Woodpecker
• Greylag Goose
• Long-tailed Tit
• Marsh Tit
• Nightingale
• Reed Warbler
• Ring-tailed Pheasant
• Rook
• Sedge Warbler
• Siskin
• Swift
• Wren

Here are a couple of photos of what we did see.

An Egytian goose

A muntjac

A grebe

A grebe nest.

A four-spotted chaser.

Another muntjac, this time right by the path.

An egret.

Some irises coming into flower.

A pleasant couple of hours to work up our appetite for lunnch when we got home.