TIME: 13:55 - 16:15
WEATHER: Not much wind with long and sunny spells. Not unbearably cold.
COMPANY: Parents and a few LBC members at various points in the day.
Thanks to Edmund Mackrill (at Chapel Six Marshes) and Kev Wilson (Gib) for putting up with my enthusiastic verbalisms! There were two others but I can't remember their last names (Dave and steve I think their names were). Dipped out on the Red-flanked at Chapel, and the Snow Geese might have been duff ID gen
LIFER: In pines near north car park,
4 CROSSBILLS. Saw female and brief glimpse of male. That's Lifer number 163!
ON THE BEACH: Herring Gull (loads), Brent Goose, Little Egret, Turnstone, Redshank, Grey Plover, Golden Plover, Sanderling, Oystercatcher.
SEEN FROM THE HIDES: Redshank, Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Circa 100 Teal, Moorhen, Coot, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Shoveler, Shelduck, Mute Swan, Sanderling, Little Grebe, Little Egret,
SEEN ON WALK ROUND: Sparrowhawk, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Goldcrest, Fieldfare, Blackbird, Starling, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, House Sparrow, Robin, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove.
WHY AM I A LUCKY GIT? Well, as I was just entering Tennyson's Hide, what should I see in the skies directly ahead of me? None other than the
RED ARROWS!!!!!!!!! 
What a nice send-off from the reserve!!!!!!!
Freiston on Sunday, then hospital! EEKS!
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