Today I was meeting up for a morning’s birding with my friend, Chris. Chris and I did a lot of birding together before my long hiatus, so it was good getting back out with him today.
Our first stop was Wedholme Flow nature reserve, part of the South Solway Mosses National Nature Reserve. This is an interesting reserve and quite a rare habitat. The site is a lowland raised peat bog with numerous pools and scrapes which attract ducks a some shorebirds.
Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap and Garden Warbler were making themselves known from the mature bushes near the small carpark. As we walked around the main reserve, checking the pools, we noted Common Cuckoo, European Stonechat, Northern Lapwings, Eurasian Curlew, Northern Shoveler and Eurasian Teal. The star birds were two Wood Sandpipers, quite a scarce passage migrant here.
Along the Solway, the highlights were some tundra-type Ringed Plover and a Eurasian Whimbrel.
It had been a good few hours birding and it was great having a proper catch up with Chris.
