The lake area has been very quiet lately so I haven't been doing a blog for the last few weeks. Today was the same - a sunny but cold day with very little around. Two buzzards were playing above, joined by a red kite who came to see what the noise was about.

A little grebe was lurking in the reeds - five were seen together last week. No Canada or Greylag Geese, only one tufted duck and very few gulls and grebes. On the far side of the bank a heron was fishing along with a grebe in its winter plumage:

The wasps nest has been destroyed by something - the remnants of it on the ground underneath the oak tree:

The robin is becoming tamer as the cold sets in. He had just found a worm but may need me to bring some mealworms if the weather sets in:

In the carpark a grey wagtail was scuttling around, a very good camouflage in the autumn leaves:

 A kestrel flew overhead and all of the smaller birds panicked.