Visit to RSPB Shapwick Heath 29th April 2013
Flushed with our glorious sighting of three Bitterns at the Ham Wall end of Ashcott Road, we crossed over the car park and onto the Shapwick Heath reserve. We walked up to the pools on Meare Heath and there were a couple of people who had been standing for quite a while hoping to see a Great White Egret that had apparently been seen well earlier in the day. We had a bit of a look but as there wasn’t much on the water and so sight of the Egret we thought we would ead up to the hides at the bridge. As it happens, the bridge was closed ff for some repair work so we did not cross over the water to the woodland hide and instead turned left down to the hide that overlooks “Noah’s Water” Again there were Whitethroat around and Swallows above. Continue reading