Sun 29th May 22

Another one of those days at the Haven, a very quiet walk to the hide after a late start, nothing offshore at all, a stop at the wind pump to check the back corners of the scrape showed a Redshank, a few Shelduck and not much else, but as I approached the hide everything changed with a phone call from RJ saying if I was on site a Male Montagu's Harrier was approaching the hide, I lifted my bin's and there it was drifting low across the marsh in front of me, you just never know what's round the corner. Thanks Pete & Richard. 

The rest of the morning turned into a bit of a raptor fest with Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Buzzard, Kestrel also seen.

Reports from today:

Pete Loud

09:43 Male Montagu's Harrier quartering the marshes behind scrape now.

09:50 Now going high and heading towards Clacton so worth keeping an eye out at Colne Point.

13:22 Didn’t have high expectations today with the cold NW wind, but that changed with the stunning male Montagu's Harrier. Unfortunately it didn’t stay for long, climbing high and drifting off SW down the coast. Not to be outdone the male Marsh Harrier showed very well a couple of times and Hobby. 20+ Swifts were low over the arable. Little Egret dropped into the scrape and Cuckoo flew over.(RJ,MR,ML,PL).

Matt Lonsdale

18:24 Walk down from farm and through site in pouring rain early afternoon. Yellowhammer the highlight + lots of Corn Bunts. 2 Avocet on scrape, decent numbers of Swift and Swallows + single House Martin.