Another fairly quiet morning. En-route to hides: crows, buzzard, bullfinch, magpies, moorhens, blackbirds and pheasant. Hide one – cormorant only. Hide two – female marsh harrier hunting, male stonechat, lesser black-backed gulls and 3 lapwing. En-route to platform – robin and herring gulls. Snipe platform – 14 mallard and 4 swans on the only small bit of unfrozen water. Seawall – most productive again with mistle thrush, starlings, light-morph buzzard, 42 avocet, 11 curlew, 6 shelduck, 2 gadwall, 18 oystercatchers, Canada geese, black headed gulls, 15 shoveler, 215 wigeon, 8 black-tailed godwits and 3 male pintail. Meadow pipit, 3 wrens and woodpigeons en-route to hide 3. Hide three – 1 greylag, green woodpecker heard yaffling, pied wagtail, song thrush and 15 more lapwing. En-route back out blue tits and female reed bunting. Back at the car park female chaffinch, kingfisher fly-past, collard dove and 2 redwings.
