June 25, 2011 archive

Visit to Lodmore RSPB : 25th June 2011

Visit to Lodmore RSPB  : 25th June  2011

Just a short drive away along the A353 is the Lodmore RSPB reserve. We hadn’t been there before but a couple of people we met at Radipole Lake told us that it is often more productive than Radipole so we decided to go there. There is parking attached to Sea World which adjoins the site but we drove around to the other end of the site on Southdown Avenue which is a residential area with lots of free parking spaces. We parked just by the path that leads through the centre of the site then turned right at the end and walked all the way around to our starting point so we must have covered about three quarters of the site – perhaps a 2k walk. The weather was very hot which made it seem longer but it was well worth visiting for the colony of Common Terns.

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Visit to Radipole Lake RSPB : 25th June 2011

Visit to Radipole Lake RSPB : 25th June  2011

Anne and I had spent the previous day attending the wedding of our friends’ daughter in Montacute in Somerset and this day we thought we should leave them all alone until meeting up again in the evening so we decided to drive down to the RSP sites at Radipole Lake and the nearby Lodmore reserve on the outskirts of Weymouth town in Dorset. We started off with a walk around the main reserve around the lake. The weather was fine and the highlights were good views of a Common Tern fishing, a Marsh Harrier over one of the lakes, Reed Bunting and Sedge Warbler. As usual for the time of year there were large numbers of Swallows and House Martins.

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