Day 99 - A Nature Ramble at Super Stavely

Hi all today's Day 99 and today I went to Stavely Nature reserve.

It is a great nature reserve and I really enjoyed watching the birds (and rodents) feeding. Next to the feeders was a large lake. There were quite a lot of different birds there though nothing really unusual today. We did see some Greylag Geese, some Mallards, swans and tufted ducks. As well as these water birds I have also seen a bird I have never seen before. It was the Yellowhammer. Here's a list of what I saw, some of which I've covered others I will be returning to in future posts:

A lovely Yellowhammer

• Water rails

• Long-Tailed Tits

• Yellowhammers (I have never seen one of these before so I was very happy to see a group of them as I came up to the hide).

• Reed Buntings

One of the Water Rails

• A Blackbird

• Blue tits

• Chaffinches

• Coots

• Dunnocks

• Great Tits

• Greenfinches

• Greylag Geese

• Lapwings

Buzzard looking out from a tree.

• A Magpie

• Mallards

• Moorhen

• Mute Swans

• Pheasants

• Tree Sparrows

• Tufted Ducks

• Wigeon (though no American :-( See here why I mentioned that)

A well fed rodent!

• A Willow Tit

• Woodpigeons

• A Barn Owl

• A Kestrel

• A Buzzard

• And finally, a Rat

As you can see, I saw quite a lot of birds today as well as a very fat rat. You could see that it was there daily from its sheer bulk. ;-)

As well as seeing lots of wildlife I also saw some neolithic stones called The Devil's Arrows. They are pretty big The smallest being 18 feet tall and the highest being 22.5 feet tall... That's 5 times the size of me. You can see that in the picture below:

Anyway. There aren't really any links I can do apart from the Stavely Reserve website:

Me next to the largest of the Devils Arrows
an almost 5,000 year old monolith!

Stavely Nature Reserve

And one or two on the Devils Arrows:

Stone circles - Devils Arrows

Ancient wisdom - Devils Arrows

Hope you enjoyed,

Z.