An excellent morning at the Corse, which was flooded to well upstream of the pines. It only has to be flooded for a day or two for the birds to come.
On the way, a kestrel perched in a tree in the upstream section of the wetland system at Kingsmill (below Stem Bridge). Three chough fed by Starman's Hall, a curlew flock in the usual area on the coastal fields. A female marsh harrier circled opposite Newton Farm, while a female sparrowhawk shot past the hide on her usual beat. Still lots of snipe in the fen meadow and reedbed, > 200.
Three shoveler and a few teal were on the water near the hide, while upstream of the pines, lots of wildfowl on the flooded meadows - 20 shoveler, 10 pintail, as well as wigeon, mallard and teal. 6 greylags in view, but more could be heard in dead ground hidden by banks and ditches. Lots of lapwing, and lots more on the muddy fields of Chapel Farm (Gupton's neighbour on the Castlemartin side) along with around 20 golden plover.
