Round the reserve!

I spent most the morning in the company of BP as we wandered up to the pines and then around the reserve. In the ARC car park 2 Mediterranean Gulls flew high overhead and several Tree Sparrows were in the bushes, on the way to the pines a couple of Marsh Harriers were over the Tower Pits and several Cetti's Warblers could be heard as could a Chiffchaff. From the entrance track a Great White Egret near Boulderwall farm, in the fields several Curlews feeding and 2 Hares charging across the field. From the viewing ramp more Marsh Harriers, several Bearded Tits, 2 Brent Geese flew into Dengemarsh and a Raven flew over. The Hayfields are looking really good for spring waders but only held 2 Oystercatchers today. Burrowes was very quiet as most the wildfowl has departed but the Long-tailed Duck was still present. No sign of the Glossy Ibis in the Emu paddock this morning.

Lunchtime I was viewing the fields from Plodland watching a Marsh Harrier quartering the ditches, the next thing I knew it was 6.00 PM! I'd been asleep for 4 hours, I cant seem to shake this bout of man flu!