Sun was out on the Farlington Marshes in Portsmouth, a great place to go if it`s sunny bit on the bleak side if not.
The reserve is on the edge of Langstone harbour, in Portsmouth. An area of low lying coastal grazing marsh jutting out into Langstone Harbour. The 300 acres (c 121 ha.) of Farlington is one of the last fragments of a once common habitat around the harbour. It is also one of the few large open spaces left within the Portsmouth area.
The site is owned by Portsmouth City Council but has been managed as a reserve by Hampshire Wildlife Trust, who have leased the site for over thirty years. Part of the reserve was lost to the A27 which now dominates the northern part of the site. Its habitat and location both serve to make it a good birding site and one that is well known to birders throughout southern England.
One of the things i have often tried to capture had been birds in flight, I never do seem to get it right, but do enjoy trying , so will carry on, I esp like large flocks the shapes and areas they make as a mass always fascinates me.
I have always wanted to get a swan landing to but never seem to be in the right place, on the day here the were quite a few Heron, Egrit and swans about as well as many others. Well worth a Sunday walk to clear the lungs.
Farlington Marshes is situated just south of the A27 between Portsmouth and Havant (Grid ref. SU 685 045).
