Plenty around on the reserve yesterday,
Lapwing are around in good numbers along with Canadian geese, a dozen Pink footed geese made a brief appearance before taking flight again heading towards Southport.
Quite a few Teal around on the different ponds, along with Little grebe, Little egret, and all the usual.
A Peregrine made a pass over putting up a good flock of lapwings and gulls into the air.
The Marsh harrier had been showing just before I arrived but flew out over towards the far side of the reserve.
The biggest surprise of the night was a Short eared owl showing up, while watching the water and talking to David Humphreys I turned around and seen something pop up out of the long grass, at first I thought it was a buzzard the realised what it was. Fantastic to see as it was showing really well at times, before a few crows mobbed it away. I have never seen an owl fly so high to escape the mobbing, at one point it was no more than spec in the sky.
While talking to Dave we think that 2 are present as one flew over and behind the pump house yet within a few mins one turned up behind us again at the back of the field. Can not see how it got past us to were it showed as we were scanning the area trying to relocate it.
Really looking forward to winter at Lunt this year.
