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No owls to be seen, and I left feeling severely hacked off.
Why? Well, my bad luck with Kingfishers continues unabated. I had my bins trained on a redshank, and what did the little girl in the hide call out? She'd seen a Kingfisher fly right across the front of the hide in the ditch, and by the time I tried to see it, it had gone, never to be seen again! I couldn't have been closer to it if I'd tried, and I STILL couldn't see it!! This is my 'curse bird'. I am always either looking the wrong way, arriving five minutes too late or leaving five minutes too early to see Kingfishers! If I ever see one it will be Life Lister Number 133.
What I DID see was as follows:
2 Little Egrets
2 Cormorants flying over
Usual Mallards touting for bread from visitors
A lagoon nearly swamped with Canada Geese
2 Tufted duck
20 Shelduck
8 Little Grebes
VERY Large skein of what must have been 500+ Brent Geese flying directly over my head!!
40 Greylag Geese
Usual Black-headed Gulls
5 Herring Gulls
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
400 Lapwings
3 Curlew
10 Redshank
1 Turnstone
3 Oystercatcher
12 Blackbirds
1 Song thrush
1 Mistle thrush
9 Fieldfare
1 Goldfinch
2 Chaffinch
1 Robin
1 Great Tit
1 Blue Tit
1 Fem. Reed Bunting
Possible group of Twite (potential life tick) near main bank dividing lagoon from salt marsh. I say possible because I thought it could be a possible small group of meadow / Rock pipits...... man, these LBJs are hard to get to grips with!
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