Lower Moors

Monday October 18
Not a lot of incentive to go out to-day. Grey skies, lack of birds and sore joints. We eventually contacted Spider who dropped us off at Lower Moors, early afternoon. A flurry of common birds just inside the gate, including a Chiffy and a fleeing Water Rail, before lunching in the Hilda Quick hide, watching a Jack Snipe bobbing and doing its sewing machine feeding action in the mud. Two Water Rails crept through the reeds and a female Sparrowhawk made two unsuccessful fly throughs, the second almost into the hide windows.

Moving on to the ISBG hide, a very close Jack Snipe gave excellent opportunities for photographs, I had to move back to get it in focus.
This Common Snipe, mud encrusted beak, made it scurry back into cover before re-appearing under the bank.

Old Town Cafe had closed - open this morning - doing us out of an anticipated Cream Tea treat.

We sat on the bench, talking to various friends, before Spider took us back to Hughtown.