The dam at Western Turville Reservoir is looking colourful at the moment covered in wild flowers.
Attracting several Azure Damselflies.
Down at the far end a Common Tern
patrolled back & forth fishing along the edge of the reed bed, as I
watched it from my vantage point on the dam another flew in above my
head from the Aylesbury direction, the two fishing together for a while, next time I scanned in that direction the incoming bird had disappeared.
Out on the water a lot of loud 'honkin' came from a family party of Egyptian Geese as they made their way towards the jetty, where what I presume to be the male aggressively announced the family's arrival.
The 'honkin' continued along with a spot of preening.
The pair of Mute Swans & their seven cygnets were quietly going about their business as their name suggests, as were two broods of Coots. A Reed Warbler continually flew to & fro from a patch of reeds. Four Swifts hawked insects low over the water, heard a Grey Wagtail.
Watching the 'floatiller' pass.
As I reached the roundabout at the western end of the Wendover Bypass, I noticed a handful of Pyramidal Orchids growing on the grass verge & what looked like a Common Spotted Orchid. Moving out into the Vale, scanning from various gate ways came across these two Hares close together.
Don.
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