A different afternoon

We checked the weather forecast this morning and decided that it looked like a good day for staying at home. So we didn't. We spent the afternoon at WWT Slimbridge watching wildfowl.

It's our way of avoiding the crowds and it works. Most of the time we had the Holden Tower hide to ourselves with views across the Severn estuary only occasionally obscured by driving rain. There is something very cosy about sitting somewhere dry and secure and watching nasty weather go by outside.

There were a lot of Canada Geese and Barnacle Geese on the marshes with a pair of Greylag Geese. We could see waders on the Severn mud but they were too far away for easy identification, just possibly Bar-tailed Godwits.

On our way to the Holden Hide we stopped of at South Hide and had a close encounter of the Scipidae kind. A different slant on bird watching!