6.15am-3pm
An extremely foggy and b****y freezing morning, brightened up later. Lots of springtime activity, singing, displaying etc
2 Marsh Harrier ( one gave close up views although in the fog, which gave it a surreal and mystical aura, one later got mobbed by a Crow. Then both seen together displaying over Hotel Pit)
2 GC Grebe - (displaying and dancing with weeds
and also collecting nesting material, one two occasions stealing nesting material from Coots!)5 Reed Bunting (4m1f)
3 Little Grebe
4 Mute Swan
Lots Shoveller and Greylags
A few Tufted Duck adn Shelduck
3 Canada Geese
4 Wren
2 Bullfinch (m)
2 Robin
1 Treecreeper
1 Pheasant
1 Willow Tit (heard)
Also a sunbathing Fox and 3 Grey Squirrel.
Dont think I will ever thaw out - brrrrrrrrr!!
Mandy