After all of the excitement of yesterday I thought I would
visit Maridalen at dawn today hoping that some of the good birds would still be
present. Unfortunately the still, sunny dawn that greeted me had ensured that
just abiut everything from yesterday had departed overnight. Not a single Teal
or rare duck remained, just 20 Goldeneye and the pair of Black-throated Divers.
Little else to see either, just a few singing Willow Warblers and a Long-tailed
Tit. Mammals were perhaps the highlight with Roe Deer, Fox and Beaver.
A further visit at lunchtime with the family resulted in my
first Blackcaps of the year plus a Lesser Redpoll and a Kestrel but the
highlights this time were on the reptile/amphibian front with many croaking and
spawn laying frogs, a couple of toads and a lizard. The beavers have been very
active and felled many trees including this one which held a nesting box used annually
by Goldeneyes. Who said Beavers were harmless creatures?
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