All lagoons frozen but a good mix of birds nonetheless. En-route to hides – robin, crows, chaffinch, buzzard, magpies and blackbirds. Hide one – fly-by from 7 mute swans, herring gulls and a pheasant calling. Hide two – 9 lapwing, 2nd (light-morph) buzzard, female reed bunting, 1 little egret and barn owl (08.32). Snipe platform – starlings and blue tit. Seawall – small patch of open water on lagoon and visible from the seawall had 15 teal, male pintail, 1 coot, 1 swan and 18 gadwall all huddled in together. On the only saltmarsh on view was Canada geese, wigeon, 2 curlew, 8 shelduck and a 100+ black-tailed godwits. Hide three (most productive today) – goldfinch, ravens, mallards, female marsh harrier, pied wagtail, barn owl hunting again (10.22) which landed on a distant post and was dived at by a passing male merlin, 14 greylags overhead, wren, 1 heron, male stonechat, 15 more lapwing and a female gt spotted woodpecker working her way along the fence posts. En-route to car park, female stonechat, song thrush, male bullfinch and a fly-over male peregrine.
