We still arrived before the reserve opened. The new visitors centre has an "interesting" design.
Ok its vile! It had two door handles falling off the entrance. I appreciate the RSPB put as much into bird conversation but......
Lets be honest we had a target bird, the Penduline Tit. The thing is reported every day! So we spent 3.5 hours at its favourite haunt and nothing. Did see a Yellow-Legged Gull and various Stonechats and heard Cettis Warbler. There were other bits and pieces but no Tit :(
So a bit of lunch and then back out.... and you guessed it the stupid bird show for 10 secs on 5 Reeds outside a hide!! Loads of birders dutifully walking up and down and if we had sat in a hide and counted ducks we had have seen it!! Kicks floor in disgust.
So we searched again and no joy MUTTER did find a Black Redstart!
An enoyable day out if bitterly cold.
2 comments:
I like the way the visitors' centre just blends into the surroundings ;o)
What an awful building, reminds me of a very old service station on the motorway (M6)
Post a Comment