Always a pleasure to visit this reserve and today was no exception, viewing from 5 of the 6 hides made number counts difficult, some estimates are given. Yellow Wagtails, 5, the previous evening the warden told us 160 came in to roost. Pied Wagtails Wood Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Bearded Tits from 3 different hides Spotted Redshank Redshank Hobby Snipe Ruff Heron Marsh Harrier Dunlin Sedge Warbler Reed Warbler Teal Black Tail Godwits Lapwing, many hundreds Sand Martins, never seen so many, must be reaching 2,000 Water Rail, 4 seen from 3 different hides Plus the usual bits and bobs
Plus an American trying to convince people that there was a Marsh Sandpiper out there, why I am not sure, for no one else could see it, even the warden
Cheers Mike Surr
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