Sadly (and for reasons unknown) but the thick bushes between snipe and marsh platform that were a valuable haven for wildlife have been ripped out. Water levels higher so very few waders. En-route to hides: robins (at least 6 singing birds on the reserve), crows, 65 greylag and115 Canada’s making their way out at dawn, jackdaws, herring gulls, blackbird and wrens. Hide one: 2 curlew only. En-route to hide 2: cettis, 2 chiffchaffs, pheasant and moorhen. Hide two: 3 black-tailed godwits, mallard and 10 teal. Snipe platform: 33 swans, 1 heron, linnets, 86 wigeon only, 2 snipe, 3 shoveler and 7 gadwall. Seawall: 25 meadow pipits, 19 more curlew, oystercatchers, shelduck, 20 more black-tailed godwits, black headed gulls, chaffinch, goldfinches, skylarks and raven. Hide 3 lagoon devoid of birds. Back at hide one: 24 lapwing and 1 little egret. Bridge by entrance: light-morph buzzard on a telegraph pole, 3 swallows, starlings, great spotted woodpecker and 4 more chiffchaffs.
