Today, as the weather forecast was good, I took a trip to the WWT reserve at Slimbridge.

The weather was cold with sunshine and broken cloud with a cold wind.

I managed to get some good images of the captive birds, and enjoyed going to the hides to watch the massive flocks of waders.  There were very large flocks of Lapwing and Golden Plover, but the star sightings were definitely some Spotted Redshanks and Ruff, but to cap it all off, we had a great sighting of a male Sparrowhawk from the Holden Tower.

I was hoping to get some good photographs of Starling flocks coming home to roost, but they are apparently not roosting at the reserve this year.

The sight of the Bewicks swans coming in to the reserve when the feeding starts is always impressive.