Female Ring-necked Duck 11:30 #OuseWashes RSPB from Stockdales Hide (viewing NE). #UkBirding #cambsbirds

The winter sun sets over the Ouse Washes overlooked by the main observatory at Welney WWT as the ducks and swans gather to roost and feed…#welney #ousewashes #fens #theearlybirder

Woop woop! Looks who's back in town 🤩 #OuseWashes #ukbirding

At @WWTWelney just S of the newly created wetlands at Denver Sluice, Barn Owls quarter Lady Fen, entirely unconcerned by the admiring onlookers, while Teal slumber (unlike when the harriers go over), & Cattle Egrets potter. #BirdsSeenIn2023 #OuseWashes #Sundayvibes #Fenland 3/4

Btw River Great Ouse (a picture of serenity) & Ouse Washes lies @stjohnscam Ouse Bridge Farm. How wonderful if could be transformed into breeding wader nirvana, as Silt Fen & Bank Farm, extension of #OuseWashes Ramsar Site! See land shrinkage bmsl: 19thC pumphouse > modern.
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#TheFens are home to two huge washlands #OuseWashes and #NeneWashes two linear floodplains to stop towns to the west from flooding. They provide important wetland habitats through the year from summer breeding waders to wintering wildfowl and other #wildlife #WorldWetlandsDay

N end of #OuseWashes hooching in duck & some redshank. To the N: good numbers of wigeon & teal on 100 Foot Drain; Whooper & Bewick's Swans on winter cereal just to W of #OldBedfordRiver which had quite a few snipe along it & someone's been eating Swan Mussels. #cambridgeshire 2/2

'Bracing' bank-top circumnavigation in 35 mph wind, of what, ideally, would be N compartment of #OuseWashes (now excluded from SSSI); apart from a few Lapwings, a relative desert compared to the rich oasis just S of the channel reported yesterday by @GrahamFAppleton. #MyWalk 1/2