Spent most of Friday at Essex Wildlife Trust's brilliant Fingringhoe Wick nature reserve. The weather was kind to me with sunshine most of the time and only a light breeze. I heard a Nightingale singing as I drove in and there were at least ten singing males as I walked around the reserve. Turtle Doves were harder to find, but I did manage to hear two purring away with one showing distantly on the other side of Old Meadow. Other highlights included a Lesser Whitethroat gathering nesting material, a single Hobby and Buzzard and a pair of Long-tailed Tits busily feeding their young high up in a gorse.
Other species seen included lots of damselflies mainly Azure, Large Red and a few Blue-tailed. Four-spotted Chasers and Hairy Dragonflies were seen around the ponds. And a number of interesting bugs!
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| Long-tailed Tit feeding young |
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| Long-tailed Tit feeding young |
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| Long-tailed Tit feeding young |
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| Gorse Shieldbug |
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| Gorse Shieldbug |
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| Large Red Damselflies |
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| Hairy Dragonfly ovipositing |
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| Hairy Dragonfly ovipositing |
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| Arge melanochra Argid Sawfly |
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| Soldier Beetle Cantharis rustica |
