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19th October 2024: An autumnal birch, splendid Kingfisher we got amazing views of this one hearing the plop as it dived out of view into water behind trees too seeing others as well a wholesome and exciting experience as always which it was great to share with others in the hide, Robin, wonderful eyelash fungi and Goosander on a brilliant afternoon at Blashford Lakes.

I also enjoyed seeing Nuthatch, Coal, Great, Blue and Long-tailed Tit, Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Wren, Little and Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Cormorants, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Pochard, Shoveler, Wigeon, Fallow Deers, Peacock butterfly, Red Admiral, Migrant Hawker, hornet, wasp, forget-me-not, some vervain in the garden, spear thistle, gorse, blackberry, my first candlesnuff fungi of the year always a great mysterious one to see, fantastic red fly agaric mushrooms for the third Saturday running I love seeing them and am having a great autumn for them and turkey tail. It was also brilliant to hear Water Rail. Goldfinch and sedum seen and Raven heard were nice at home today.

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Blashford lakes | Best Attractions, Facilities, Best time to visit

Blashford lakes | Best Attractions, Facilities, Best time to visit

Blashford lakes Blashford Lakes is a Nature Reserve located on the edge of the New Forest, 2.5 miles from Ringwood. The Blashford lakes are a bustling centre of activity, with thousands of birds including kingfishers, lapwings and oystercatchers. Lapwings are particularly abundant, with over 1,000 present during the breeding season. The lakes are also home to a variety of other wildlife,…

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Dorset 2020: 11th January

Dorset 2020: 11th January

Day one of our 2020 trip to Dorset saw us travelling down from London to Weymouth. We stooped off at Blashford Lakes in Hampshire for a couple of hours in the afternoon and although we didn’t record a large number of species, we did see some good ones.

Arriving at the reserve we went straight to Tern hide and were soon watching a distant Long-tailed Duck, a species which is more commonly found…

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21st April 2024: The gorgeous rare Marsh Sandpiper at Lymington only the second I've ever seen what a beautiful bird, view at tree at Blashford Lakes, view at Lymington, flower in the garden and Common Tern at Blashford Lakes on another fine and splendid day today.

My first Little Terns of the year at Lymington a year tick alongside the Common Tern and Marsh Sandpiper took my year list to 164 capping off an extraordinary and packed wild spring weekend. Marsh Harrier, great Sand Martin views, Egyptian and Bar-headed Geese, Avocet, Redshank, Swallow, Gadwall, Shelduck, Shoveler, Turnstone, Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell butterflies, plantain, gorse, garlic mustard, ground ivy, forget-me-not and bluebells were other highlights today.

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Naturelog 12 January

As we did last year Sue and I started the year off with a week in Weymouth in Dorset. On the way from London, we stopped off at Blashford Lakes in Hampshire. This gem of a reserve we discovered for the first time on the way home from Dorset last year.

Our first stop was Ibsey water but apart from a party of Linnets, a Little Grebe and some distant gulls, most of which seemed to be Lesser…

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19th February 2024: Day off at Blashford Lakes and Lakeside Country Park

Photos taken in this set are of; wonderful scarlet elf cups at Blashford Lakes which I was hoping to see ruby gems of the late winter woodland floor, a Lesser Redpoll there one of my first of the year which was thrilling to see, rose hips at Lakeside, sunset at home this evening, Great Crested Grebe and Wigeon which we got fine views of from the Ivy south hide at Blashford Lakes, Kestrel at Lakeside a star there today and beautiful views at both locations including lovely blossom. There was a nice theme of my favourite colour red in my photos today.

My first Bittern of the year giving a sensational view as it flew across in front of the hide was another extraordinary natural moment this long weekend for me taking my bird year list to 136 (only last year's list - my highest ever in total - was on a higher number on this date which is amazing) and it was nice to see a Bank Vole at the woodland hide another great mammal seen this year. Kingfisher, Pochard, Teal, Pintail, Red Kite, cheery emerald Greenfinches and Siskins, Goldcrest, primroses and Cetti's Warbler heard were other highlights at Blashford Lakes. Red Kite, Long-tailed Tit, Wren, Green Woodpecker, Greenfinches, Magpie, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, crocuses and Chaffinch heard also stood out at Lakeside. Blackbird in the garden, five Great White Egrets and a Little Egret by Romsey on the way home seen from the motorway which was unprecedented and forsythia in flower on the hedge out the front were other good moments today. An phenomenal wild and nicely relaxing long weekend.

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On our way home from Weymouth, Sue and I made a lunchtime stop at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve, near Ringwood in Hampshire. I had never been to this reserve before, in fact, I had never heard of it till a couple of days ago. Which is quite a surprise when I read what was on offer here. The evening Gull roost (which as lunchtime visitors we did not see) presently includes 5 rarer Gull species. The stars are 2 American Gulls, Thayer’s Gull and Ring-Billed Gull along with Caspian Gull, Iceland Gull and Yellow-legged Gull together with thousands of the commoner Gull species.

Anyway, we were too early for roosting Gulls but we started on Ibsey Lake where there was an amazing 40 Goosander on the far bank along with 15 Pintail and a single Pink-footed Goose. Out on the lake were a few Goldeneye together with Common Pochard and Tufted Duck.

Goosanders. Photo by Sergey Yeliseev (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yeliseev/)

Our next stop was the Woodland hide where we were treated to a wonderful display of woodland birds including some beautiful Siskin and Brambling along with Chaffinch, Dunnock, Long-tailed Tits, Nuthatch, Great and Blue Tits.

Brambling

Siskin (left), Wigeon (top right) and Deer (bottom right)

On the way back to the car park, we were directed to a spot where we could see a Great White Egret and Little Egret resting in the reed-bed and then were treated to a rather confiding deer (probably a Fallow Deer) which fed quite happily as we watched it from the path

This was a short visit but I would really like to visit again and spend a lot more time exploring this wonderful reserve.

Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) Gadwall (Anas strepera) Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope) Mallard [sp] (Anas platyrhynchos) Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) Common Goldeneye [sp] (Bucephala clangula) Goosander / Common Merganser [sp] (Mergus merganser) Great Egret [sp] (Ardea alba) Little Egret [sp] (Egretta garzetta) Great Cormorant [sp] (Phalacrocorax carbo) Eurasian Coot [sp] (Fulica atra) Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) European Herring Gull [sp] (Larus argentatus) Common Wood Pigeon [sp] (Columba palumbus) Western Jackdaw [sp] (Coloeus monedula) Carrion Crow [sp] (Corvus corone) Great Tit [sp] (Parus major) Eurasian Blue Tit [sp] (Cyanistes caeruleus) Long-tailed Tit [sp] (Aegithalos caudatus) Eurasian Wren [sp] (Troglodytes troglodytes) Eurasian Nuthatch [sp] (Sitta europaea) Common Starling [sp] (Sturnus vulgaris) Common Blackbird [sp] (Turdus merula) European Robin [sp] (Erithacus rubecula) House Sparrow [sp] (Passer domesticus) Dunnock [sp] (Prunella modularis) Common Chaffinch [sp] (Fringilla coelebs) Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus) European Goldfinch [sp] (Carduelis carduelis)

Naturelog: 9th February On our way home from Weymouth, Sue and I made a lunchtime stop at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve, near Ringwood in Hampshire.

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