Saturday, 13 September 2025

Brief Osprey at Carlton

On Saturday 13th September as I walked down to Peto's Marsh, a Sedge Warbler flew across the track from right to left right at the beginning of the walk. At 10.15am, By Peto's, I saw some Corvid Carron Crows mobbibg a large brown and white bird of Prey with long wings it was the fantastic Osprey but it flew down below the tree line and despite much searching wasn't seen again until just after I left at 2.25pm. As I walked along the main bank, I saw a small blue damselfly and my suspicions were confirmed when I got home to confirm it was a male Common Blue Damselfly. Meanwhile at the far end of Peto's a fantastic Bittern flew up and flew along the western part of Peto's and then dropped down in the north-west corner. Walking around I saw a long Black-tailed Godwit. I the n walked to the sluice and immeidately saw 2 male Wall Brown butterflies on the path. 3 'Noon' flies were on the wall and at one point a Common Lizard resting there too before suddenly dropping down I walked 800 metres further north and saw another 2 male Wall Browns mainly posing on the path. But then later I saw an Emerald resting on a piece of vegeation, it was extremely obliging and I waited for the sun to come to get some pics. When I got home i finally identified it as a male Willow Emerald Damselfly. Walking back by the cross path track to Share marsh, I heard the sub song of a Cetti's Warbler and the the bird was briefly completely out on show but became more elusive inevitably when I got the camera out, it did show briefly a few times before moving down the dyke. I also saw a couple of Reed Bunting too.

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