An hour's fishing on the Eastern Cleddau yesterday evening, and some nice birds.
3 Snipe flew up from a meadow that had clearly been flooded during the winter.
And the calls of several Siskin from the large pine plantation to the SW of the village.
On the river itself, a Dipper, and a Kingfisher flying downstream carrying a fish: can they have started to nest already, or was this an offering to a mate?
Most interesting was a male Goosander: I have never seen either these or Mergansers on the upper reaches of Eastern or Western Cleddau in over a decade of fishing both rivers. No signs of a female, so likely a winter visitor, but it suggests a (slightly) better stock of fish than my lack of success would suggest (or its causal...).
