A dream morning on the Corse (Gupton side). Cracking views of a
great white egret, two
little egrets and two
grey herons which were standing within a few feet of eachother around the muddy pool at the heart of the Corse (viewable from the track east from Starmans Hall). The pool is at the N end of the S-N hedge that runs down to the deepest part of the basin, where the NT is thinking of eventually putting a hide. The two little egrets flapped upstream, the two greys and the great flew about over the reedbed (the great white briefly mobbed by two crows) before the great white dropped into the reeds by the lete further downstream. This record shot from my point n'shoot is another candidate for worst bird pic of the year.
As I walked slowly back, a female marsh harrier appeared from the NE and flew around against the backdrop of the Burrows, repeatedly mobbed by corvids.Eventually it dropped to the reedbed, hunted up and down briefly then dropped into the reeds about 500m ENE of Starmans Hall. Just possible it was a dark immature male, going purely on size comparison with the crows.
Otherwise a buzzard, several snipe, lots of starlings, meadow pipits and skylarks in the coastal fields.
