Osprey, Pennington Flash

Another murky day with periods of heavy rain, I was at Green Lane for 7:15am and almost immediately heard the gulls crying and then spotted an osprey flying quite low over the middle of the flash. It flew down to the western end and I thought it was going but it turned and started to hover over the water, before flying back past the ruck where it attempted to land and then back to the centre of the flash where it again hovered just off the point. Finally it headed west again and I watched it until it was lost to sight. A fabulous sight and only my second osprey at the flash and the first for three years.