Dave McCulley Photography : Framton Marsh.

I took a trip to Framton on Friday as it was supposed to be the only good day of weather over the weekend.
The lake in front of the visitor centre had been drained down over the week, but was hoping to be filled again during this coming week.
First stop was the 360 hide for a look at the Avocets that have been arriving and a Skylark that comes quite close to the hide, providing a good look. Then a Ruff walked close by allowing for a good photo opportunity.

Avocet.

Skylark.

Ruff.

Plenty of gulls around today making plenty of noise along with a couple of Med Gulls on one of the islands.

It was nice to see a Little grebe and a Great crested grebe so close together giving a size comparison between the two. The Great crested grebe was doing pretty well at fishing and caught fish 7 out of 8 times nothing big but it wont go hungry.

Great Crested Grebe.

Little Grebe.

The notice board said that Twite had been seen near to the old car park, so I headed up for a look on first pass nothing could be seen. But on the way back around a dozen showed up in a small tree, unfortunately I now had the behind the birds.

Twite.

Twite.

All in all a good afternoons walk around the reserve hopefully the weather will improve and I can get out a bit more. Below is a few more pictures from the day.