Lakeside

Had a trip to lakeside again, mainly for photography but was rewarded with a jack snipe. We flushed it when trying to get a pic of some stonechats in the reeds and it almost met it's maker thanks to a female sprawk. Thankfully it got away, I would have felt very bad!

Here are the stonechat pics, lovely setting but they aren't very tame:Grubby blue tit havung a preen:Another black and white heron flyover, showing the vast wingspan:The blackheaded gulls were back in force now the ice has started to melt: