Martin's Bird Blog & Nature Photos

Tag: Eurasian spoonbills

  • 17th March 2026 – WWT Slimbridge

    17th March 2026 – WWT Slimbridge

    What a joy to be out and about and immersed in nature again today. I know with the wet weather we have had this winter many others would also be feeling the same. 

    However, I’m especially grateful as in the past 3 and a half months since my last blog I have had some serious surgery to contain bladder and prostate cancer. I am very pleased that today I have got to the point where I could make the 25 mile journey to Slimbridge and even happier that I could manage to carry a camera to capture some of the beautiful moments.

    I was restricted to the two nearest hides to the centre’s entrance but that was more than enough for today. The highlights were 3 Eurasian spoonbills but each and every bird was a special delight for me. Hope you like some of the photos too.

    The whooper and Bewick swans have all headed back to Russia and we are left with mute swans

    … and black swans too.

    I felt this robin, only a few steps away, came to greet us personally.

    One of my favourites, a Northern pintail

    There were plenty of raucous rooks looking for nesting material

    Eurasian spoonbill

    Eurasian spoonbill

    Eurasian spoonbill posing for the camera

    Eurasian spoonbill up close and in flight

    A sense of scale – Eurasian spoonbill and Eurasian curlew

    Another sense of scale – male and (smaller) female shelduck

    Wigeon

    Canada geese

    Barnacle geese

    Greylag goose
    The teals were very colourful in the sun

    … as were the blue tits

    Common moorhen

    A showy mute swan

    The 3 Eurasian spoonbills together

    Lots of work to be done at this time of the year – cutting the willow

    This is what it would be like without a long lens!