Another quiet visit, water levels still too high on the lagoons to encourage waders. En-route to hides – Canada geese, 2000+ starlings coming from their roost site on the main reserve, heron, blackbirds, pair pheasants, crows, magpie and collard dove. Hide one – 2nd heron, 13 wigeon, 9 fly-by swans, 25 lapwing, 48 teal, female marsh harrier hunting, cormorant, mallards, reed bunting, herring gulls, woodpigeons and 300+ black-tailed godwits which the harrier spooked with the group flying over the seawall. Hide two – female sparrowhawk and 6 shoveler. Snipe platform – single little grebe, 120 more teal and water rail calling. Seawall – 2 curlew and 12 shelduck only. Hide three – male pintail, 15 more shoveler, meadow pipit, ravens, wren and redshank calling.
