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Birdworld

The sun was still shining so we decided to take a trip to Birdworld. It was a reasonable day out but we would not go back. On the website it looks wonderful but many of the attractions were over rated. It was more expensive than our recent trip to Marwell Zoo and it only took us an hour or so to see everything. The food in the Cafe was reasonable and helped to while away the time. Under water world consisted of about a dozen very grubby tanks and took about 5 minutes to walk through.The childrens Farm did not have very much and the sea shore walk was a small pond with a boat by the side of it. Their were some pretty birds and a 20 minute talk in the heron theatre where a few birds did a few tricks.
The biggest attraction for us was the solony of wild herons that nest their and were frequently seen flying over head or landing by the ponds.

Blacktailed Godwit

Kingfisher

Heron

Little Egret

heron catching his supper

Little Egret

Heron

Blacktailed Godwit

Kingfisher

Little Egret

More Bird Watching at Goatee Beach

Little Egret

Heron
Flicak and Little Flicka have a picnic

Great crested Grebe

A quick Trip to the Lower Test Nature Reserve

We decided to pop down to the Nature Reserve this afternoon. it was a very grey day. The wind was blowing in off the water and it was really more like November than August. We saw a few egrets , lapwings and a couple of herons but it was fairly quiet and too cold for the dragonflies and butterflies.

This afternoon we went back to the Lower Test Nature Reserve, The two screens were devoid of birds, but on the boardwalk we saw a pretty red Admiral Butterfly. Just as we got to the hide , the heavens opened and we heard the Thunder. For a while we sat and watched to distant egrets in the pouring rain and we began to think we would not see much, but all of a sudden there was a flash of blue as a kingfisher appeared and then a Heron came in. This was our best afternoon yet!

On th Board Walk a Red Admiral Butterfly

A Little duck in the rain

A heron


Heron meets Little Egret

Lapwings and starlings

As we drove past Janesmoor pond we spotted this heron and I managed to get a quick photo before he flew off.

Heron