Mon 12th Jan 26

The flooding on the marshes was much more widespread this morning but everything looked much as yesterday, with lots of ducks & geese, lapwing, curlew and corvids etc. over the marsh.

A walk down the approach road with Mike added nothing of note, then the phone rang, Pete Loud who was along the track from the humpback bridge to the cattle pen had located a Bittern (the first recorded on the site since Sept 2017) in long grass west of the B1032, after a while the bird made a short flight to the edge of the reedbed and spent the next 40 mins making it's way along the edge before moving into the reeds and being lost to view. PL/RJ/MO'H/DP/S&PC/MR et.al.

I'm sure some better photos will follow

A quick visit to the hide showed the 2 Peregrines were up on the arable, 100+ Lapwing were on the ploughed field, a few Greylag and ducks were below the raised platform and 3 Purple Sands were on the beach by the sluice. 

Reports from today

Pete Loud

10:44 Bittern sitting out on the flooded field over the road viewable from the recently laid path

15:08 The Bittern was an unexpected surprise this morning couldn’t believe it when it stayed out in the open for over an hour giving a few people the opportunity to see it, although Simon and Pat were very unlucky, it disappeared into the reedy ditch a couple of minutes before their arrival. Later a walk along the front revealed 5 Purple Sandpipers on the seawall just north of French Point and a Reed Bunting which was surprisingly a new bird for the Haven year list, they are very scarce on site during the winter months.