Nina P
Nina
I would like to reccommend a visit to the lakes at Tamar, I visited the lower lake on this latest visit, I find this a delightfully relaxing spot, and have made this a fairly frequent place to sit and watch, and this was the first place I ever had the delight of seeing a treecreeper.. A memory fixed for life in my memory bank.
On the latest visit I found a solitary spoonbill shyly appearing between the reeds at the furthest range of my bins, I saw it take no more than five steps across a gap in the reeds, and that was it!
Great crested grebes diving and swimming like half submerged submarines, loads of gulls some just moulting their juvenile plumage, and flocks of geese, they were too far away to distinguish which but I thought they were Canada geese. The other highlight was the number of herons, some in trees and one pair stalking in stately manner over the far side of the lake.
The swallows and housemartins were sweeping the lakes and the flowers were truly wonderful with meadowsweet, purple loosestrife, and hemp agrimony still in flower.
I would also like to say there are water sports on the upper lake and a cafe at this point, really a wonderful place for all ages.
B Nina.
On the latest visit I found a solitary spoonbill shyly appearing between the reeds at the furthest range of my bins, I saw it take no more than five steps across a gap in the reeds, and that was it!
Great crested grebes diving and swimming like half submerged submarines, loads of gulls some just moulting their juvenile plumage, and flocks of geese, they were too far away to distinguish which but I thought they were Canada geese. The other highlight was the number of herons, some in trees and one pair stalking in stately manner over the far side of the lake.
The swallows and housemartins were sweeping the lakes and the flowers were truly wonderful with meadowsweet, purple loosestrife, and hemp agrimony still in flower.
I would also like to say there are water sports on the upper lake and a cafe at this point, really a wonderful place for all ages.
B Nina.