Day 1 - Wednesday 15th October. A couple of hours or so to spare so a drive around Fen Drayton Lakes RSPB.

Result - nothing worth keeping.!!!

Day 2 - Thursday 16th October. A visit to Welney WWT. Weather forecast was mostly sunny but mostly darkish cloud cover - far from ideal. Not much there out of the ordinary either.

Many more Wigeon since my last visit.

Plenty of Mallard, mostly in breeding plumage now with the resulting activity.

And the usual stop over on the feeders. No Tree Sparrows showing again but a couple of House Sparrows having an altercation.

Nothing to really get excited about.

Day 3 - Friday 17th October. Lynford Aboretum as it has been quite a while since my last visit. Previously, small birds had quickly descended on food put out on the bridge but not this time. It took ages before any came down, and even then not often. First was a Dunnock.

and then a Marsh Tit or two.

 

Quite a while since I had photographed one of them so that was a result but a total absence of Nuthatch that was surprising. The mere has dried out so there was nothing to see there either. Later on we tried to find Goldcrest and Firecrest, both of which are prevalent there but they refused to appear. 

So on to nearby Lackford Lakes where we drew a total blank but, taking a side road home, we found a couple of Red-legged Partridges, one of which did not do the usual disappearing act and gave us the once-over.

Now you can understand the heading of this blog.