More activity this morning which was nice, en-route to hides jackdaws, blue tit, pheasant, magpies, crows, herring gulls, dunnock, chaffinch, woodpigeons, starlings, robin, blackbirds and moorhen. Hide one – Canada geese, 28 teal, 59 wigeon and 71 lapwing. Hide two – 2 buzzards, 19 shoveler, single dunlin, mallards, coot, 5 redshanks, male stonechat, wren and 2 cormorants (fly-by). Snipe platform – 32 more teal, 2 more shoveler, 2 greylags, water rail squealing and distant green woodpecker calling. Seawall – 12 curlew, 15 shelduck, black headed gulls, 158 black-tailed godwits and meadow pipit. Hide three – 11 gadwall, 53 more wigeon, 2nd water rail squealing, female marsh harrier hunting, 3 male pintail and chiffchaff feeding. Single redwing flying past en-route to the car park.
