Bev's health issues have impacted dramatically on my ability to get outdoors, so the daily Bruno walk has to provide the majority of my wildlife encounters. Minster Marshes have certainly played a major part in my birding, thus far in 2025, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future? Yesterday's stroll enabled me to add Lesser Whitethroat and Nightingale to the year list whilst this morning's exercise resulted in my second Ring Ouzel of the year and, most unexpectedly, I finally managed to get some useable images of a Grass Snake.
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| I captured this image using my 100 - 400 mm lens. I need to get back with the macro kit to see what might be achievable? |
The set-a-side fields have now been ploughed and this has had a dramatic effect on the numbers, and variety, of birds around the area. No point complaining, as it is farmland afterall. I will continue to send my sightings in to the Save Minster Marshes gang, knowing that every little helps add to the database and, as such, might just provide the evidence to sway the planning decisions?
Great grass snake shot, well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks - this was the first time that a Grass Snake stayed put, opposed to slithering off into the vegetation, when I lifted the corrugated sheet.
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