A visit to my daughters in Lancashire for Christmas allowed a visit to Hesketh Outmarsh RSPB Reserve. This reserve is on the Ribble estuary and is a winter haven for thousands of wildfowl, most notably Pink-footed Geese and dabbling ducks such as Wigeon, Teal, etc. The reserve has improved dramatically over recent years due to work by the RSPB.
I only had a couple of hours there but could have stayed all day and not seen it all. Some of the highlights are shown below.
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| The noticeboard shows how the site looked before habitat improvement by the RSPB |
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| A few of the many thousands of Pink-footed Geese in the area. |
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| Whooper Swans and Canada Geese - A large pile of rotting potatoes at the back of this field may have attracted this flock. |
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| Whooper Swans |
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| Whooper Swans and Canada Geese |
Many other birds were seen but not photographed partly because of the poor light. These included huge numbers of Wigeon, Teal, Pintail, Shelduck, Curlew, Redshank, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, etc.
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