Great activity on the feeding station - corn bunting, reed bunting, goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinch, yellowhammer, collared dove, house sparrow, jackdaw, couple of starlings and a pheasant! The reed and corn buntings were in flocks of around 20 each.
All the Bewicks have gone now, so only Whooper and Mute on the Washes. Plenty of other activity though:
Coot, moorhen, pochard (still a good few), wigeon, pintail (saw a pair but someone later reported 18!), lapwing, black-tailed godwit (VERY large flock), golden plover (another very large flock), tufted duck (only 20 or so), shoveler, black headed gulls, curlew (3), avocet (4), goldeneye (2), teal (3 pair), little egret (3), greylag, Canada goose, oystercatcher (2), cormorant (3 over), redshank (5), blue tit (only 1), magpie, heron (2). At the right hand end of the Wash we saw a cormorant with a white head - is this fairly common??
Also a (those in the know said female) marsh harrier which circled slowly around the main viewing lounge, and a merlin closely chasing something that didn't want to be acquainted and flashed by so quickly we couldn't identify it!
Finally, from the main lounge at the right hand end I saw what I fairly confidently identified as a Jack Snipe. 51 different birds in all, and a lovely sunny day - what could be better
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