En-route to hides – Canada geese, jackdaws, raven, herring gulls, pheasants, moorhens, chiffchaff, crows, heron, woodpigeons, starlings, chaffinch, 2 swans (in reen), 3 little egrets overhead and blackbirds. Hide 1 – cettis, 90 restless black-tailed godwits flying out over sea wall, 1 gadwall and mallards. En-route hide 2 – magpies, blue tit, 2nd chiffchaff, buzzard, linnets, great white egret flying towards The Point and 2 snipe overhead. Hide 2 – grey wagtail, 32 teal, 52 lapwing, skylark, 2nd buzzard and robins. Snipe platform – male stonechat, rooks, wren, 30 swans, 56 more gadwall, coot, female marsh harrier and 4 house martins. Song thrush on the way to the seawall. Seawall – 6 swallows, shelduck, wigeon, black headed gulls, another little egret, 1 curlew only and shoveler. Hide 3 – 28 meadow pipits, pair stonechats, 51 swallows in small groups, water rail calling, 34 greylag geese, single ruff, 1 cormorant and goldfinches. Back by snipe platform 11 skylarks overhead calling and 4 snipe overhead. Back at hide 1 pair of redshanks briefly feeding before flying off. Back by the car park roving flock included 1 willow warbler, 3 chiffchaffs, long tailed tits, dunnock, wren, blue and great tits. Other: 2 commas, 1 red admiral, 2 large whites and migrant hawkers.
