En-route to hides – woodpigeons large flocks high overhead (Continental birds), mallards, pheasants, crows, robin, jackdaws, starlings, Canada geese, herring gulls, moorhen, ravens, swan pair (in the reen) and blue tits. Hide 1: single black-tailed godwit, 2 redshanks, 2 teal, magpies and 3 cattle egrets that dropped in on the island at 0732 then left at 0758. Hide 2: wren, 19 lapwing, 75 more teal, cettis (2), cormorant, reed bunting, pair stonechats, meadow pipits, song thrush, 2 snipe overhead and 3 skylarks. Snipe platform: 24 more swans, 32 more teal, 12 shoveler, 18 gadwall and 3 wigeon. En-route to sea wall: 3 curlew, male kestrel, chiffchaff contact call and chaffinch. Seawall: 8 oystercatchers, shelduck, black-headed gulls, 15 more curlew, 3 dunlin, 58 more wigeon and an immature common gull. Hide 3: water rail squealing, adult female sparrowhawk crossing the lagoon, 2 little egrets, 15 greylag geese, 5 rooks, juvenile male sparrowhawk perched on a post was mobbed by a passing female marsh harrier. Back on the seawall was a very showy and immaculate juvenile female northern wheatear (and a basking red admiral on the wall). En-route to the car park pied wagtails, goldfinches, great tit, linnet and 9 swallows. Other: speckled wood by the entrance and small white.
