I called into Venus pool on Thursday of this week and was watching some ringed plovers squabbling away. They are busy little things thats for sure, I did eventually manage to take a photograph although it was a bit of a long way off.

Other than that I thought it was a little bit quiet, there were a few lapwings, a great crested grebe surfaced near to the hide but I didn't see anything too unusual.
I also went and took a look at Lena's hide which has lot of...

Bright sunshine. Pair of Rooks and many Jackdaws.

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Stopped off for a quick visit to Hogganfield Loch at 1415 hrs and was greeted by the trilling calls of a flock of Waxwings, after a quick scan they were quickly located and I went over and took some photos. There were 57 birds present and they were very restless, managed aome record shots of these wonderfull birds before they flew off to another part of the park.

This female Merlin was hunting over the saltmarsh at Aberlady Bay in East Lothian. It was constantly hovering, a behaviour I haven't witnessed before with this species. It suddenly made a short dash and plunged into vegetation, after a short time it flew up with this unlucky Snipe securely in it's talons.



Also managed to get a poor and very hurried shot of a Jack Snipe before it dropped back down into the saltmarsh....