Notes on birds/wildlife from a nature enthusiast & photographer (copyright Peter Ransome)
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Found my first ever Red- footed Falcon at Fisher Row, Oulton Marshes
On Thursday 15th May, I drove down to Fisher Row at 6.20pm, walking down the path, I heard a Blackcap singing, I saw a singing Sedge Warbler and heard a Chiff- Chaff calling too. It was immediately apparent that the former horse fields have been acquired by SWT, which is great news. By the sloping field, there were several Rooks and Carrion Crows, past the railway line little seen. As I reached the river and I followed the path round by the stretch of reeds by the river, I heard 2 Reed Warblers singing but not seen, I also heard and briefly saw a Sedge Warbler. Looking over the marsh, I first saw a Hobby perched up in a tree and then spied a second Hobby perched up too. Both Falcons soon flew off. Walking around, I saw another falcon around 300 metres east of the Dutch Tea garden area, in a dead possible Cricket Bat Willow, it was a fine adult female Red- footed Falcon. I managed to get a few shots before a male Marsh Harrier flew straioght at it and she flew north- east and disappeared behind a bush, she flew around and alighted on the same branch for several seconds before she flew north-east again.
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