Friday, 1 January 2021

A Whiter Shade Of Pale



It HAS been a white christmas around the Ely10.  A couple of Bewick Swans joined the Stretham swan flock but the White-fronts had moved on.  

 

It seems incredible that in the last couple of years Great White Egrets have become bump into birds around the fens and a flock of Cattle Egrets around Welney a semi-permanent fixture.  A Great White Egret stalking through the floods at Earith braved increasingly heavy rainfall, surely making the search for food beneath the bubbling meniscus much more difficult.


Cattle Egrets, showing a much more seek and destroy tactic through the rough, wet grassland of Lady Fen.

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