Anglesey Abbey

A Good Friday visit to a very busy Anglesey Abbey. The gardens were wonderful and I suspect worth a visit in May for breeding passerines. On the wander around the spectacular winter gardens a sparrow hawk, great and blue tits were heard. A great spotted woodpecker was drumming and calling whilst goldcrests and long tailed tits were heard in the many well established conifers. The quarry lake held just one moorhen and blackbirds and song thrushes enjoyed the ground covering vegetation and bamboo stands. Several empty nests were seen, especially in the large wisteria and espaliered pyrus that were attached to the Abbey itself.