16/12/06 Welney WWT Leaders:Simeon
The others went to Kings Lynn, I got bored, so I went to Welney. Whilst eating lunch in the visitor centre a beautiful Short - Eared Owl flew over one of the ponds really close! Then it started hunting over the fields and landed a couple of times! Best views I've ever had! Then I went to the main observatory and managed to pick out one Scaup and a few Plastic Geese among the hundred of swans and ducks. I was getting bored by this time so I tried to go to the other hides, only the flooding didn't let me! I took a rather amusing photo (above) to share it with everyone else...! On returning back to the hide I noticed 300+ gulls except they were all sitting on the water so no-one can identify those Yellow - Legged Gulls amongst them! Then a Peregrine cheered me up by flying through my scope view and flying round over the hide spooking several hundred Wigeon/Mallard/Pochard. An all right day over all!