Today we were greeted with lovely sunshine for our tour around Cleeveland Lakes.
From the car park we could still hear Chiffchaff calling and overhead four Skylarks flew by along with a couple of Meadow Pipits.
Scanning the lakes we found around 50 Cormorants along with over 30 Little Egrets and a good number of Great Crested Grebes.
Numbers of Wigeon are starting to rise now as the winter is on the way also a few more Shoveller are around.
Looking out from the hide we had very good views of both Goldeneye and Black Necked Grebe also a few little grebes.
Moving on to the other hide a good selection of duck could be seen which included the following,
Teal, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Gadwall, Wigeon and best of all two juvenile Pintail.
A couple of Grey Wagtail feed along the muddy edge along with a single Snipe. We heard a Water Rail call but it did not come out from its hiding place, also hearing Cetti's Warbler here too.
Moving on back around the lake we saw both Sparrowhawk and Kingfisher and two tiny Goldcrest were found in the thick hedgerow.
A quick look from the new footpath around lake 83 produced two Stonechat and a couple more Meadow Pipits.
With the warm weather still around we counted four Red Admiral butterflies all around the Ivy bushes along with a few larger Dragonflies.
All in all a very enjoyable walk in the Autumn sunshine.DT
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