Haunts Of Coot And Hern

We only saw an artwork of a hern but there were plenty of coot about.

Thank you, Alfred, Lord Tennyson for the inspiration for the title of this blip. At first I thought a brook isn't the most likely place to see a coot as they seem to prefer still, open water like ponds or lakes rather than streams, brooks or canals. Then I realized that "the brook" in "I come from haunts of coot and hern" would be perhaps be flowing flowing from a tarn or lake, the "haunts".

We spent this morning at The Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Centre. As yesterday, we sat for quite a while on a bench with a view of a nice branch for a kingfisher to land on at a location where they nested earlier in the year. The Man would have loved a kingfisher for his 4K blip, but this was not to be. (The kingfisher, not the 4,000 blip, that went ahead regardless!)

We would have spent the rest of the day doing other touristy things but a phone call from our garage about the Jimny made us dash to the pub return to the hotel to do some research.