Sun 3rd Nov 19

A much better day today, I met up with Ian at the sailing club and as there was nothing moving offshore we decided to split up, he walked the approach road and found 1 Firecrest & 4+ Goldcrest along with the residents.

I spent an hour around the carpark bushes, there were still lots of Blackbirds and an increase in Redwing to double figures, 2+ Song Thrush, 1 Green Woodpecker a few Chaffinch & Greenfinch, 2 late Swallows and 1 Goldcrest. Also a steady movement of Goldfinch through the site with small groups dropping into the bushes briefly before moving on. On the way to the hide the pair of Stonechat were again on the mounds.

From the hide things looked much the same with c70 Greylag, 7 Canada Geese & c60 Brent on the arable, c100 Teal, 60+ Wigeon, 5 Shoveler, 100+ Lapwing, 2 BlkWits, 1 Redshank, 3 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk 2 Grey Heron.
While watching a Grey Heron a Gt. White Egret appeared out of the ditch at the back of the scrape which flushed 2 Grey Herons, it spent a few minutes in this area before flying to the marsh in front of the back hedge and shortly lifted off again and dropped into the marsh between the approach road and the B1032 and was lost to view.

I was still trying to relocate the Egret when a visitor ask what the bird being mobbed by two Kestrels was, the answer was a Ring-tailed Hen Harrier. The bird showed well at distance 3 or 4 times in the next hour and on a couple of occasions came very close to the hide.