Hoping to get the chance to photograph the Great Crested Grebe, I arrived just after sunrise at around 7:45 AM at this place that Celia frequents to go running. It was her who had seen this species a few days earlier. I ended up observing 36 different species.
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| Great Crested Grebe |
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| Still quiet and with a clear blue sky before the summer heat kicked in |
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| Great Crested Grebe |
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| Zitting Cisticola |
I observed various types of egrets and herons. The one I most delighted to see was the Black-crowned Night Heron. I saw three of them, one juvenile and two adults, standing together on a rock in the middle of the lagoon, beside a Grey Heron.
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| Three Black-crowned Night Herons with a Grey Heron on the right |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron |
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| One of the two Squacco Herons I saw |
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| Grey Heron overflying the lagoon |
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| Grey Heron |
While I was sitting on the riverbank to take a few shots of dragonflies I saw a blue flash flying over the water. A Kingfisher! I was quick enough to capture a few images before it perched in a tree next to the water. Just before I finished my walk I saw two more Kingfishers flying together over the grass. Because there was quite some distance between the two places, I assume they were three birds in total.
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| Kingfisher |
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| At least I could identify this one as a female |
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| Five Mallards in flight over the lagoon |
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| Grey Heron in front of a juvenile and adult Spoonbill |
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| Three Spoonbills coming in to land |
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| Black-winged Stilt |
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| Juvenile Goldfinch feeding on seeds |
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| Common Moorhen |
Read more about this birding hotspot here.