After our recent emergency globetrotting it is time to start doing local things again...that means cheap. So we headed off to Paxton Pits nature reserve on Sunday for a short walk in the mud and a spot of bird watching. This is, as the name suggests, an old gravel quarry which has been rehabilitated as lakes. The quarry is still active and you walk past some of the workings.
Masses of waterbirds - we saw black cormorants and herons nesting, lots of swans, coots, moorhens, tufted ducks, wigeon, pochard and even (this is apparently quite exciting) some smew. This sounds like something awful out of one of little M's My Little Pony videos but is in fact a rather handsome black and white duck.
They occasionally get otters in the lakes but J was disappointed this time around. The day was rather cold and the ground was muddy in places but a pleasant walk all the same. Little M insisted on joining the Friends of Paxton Pits
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