A couple of smart Little Egrets relatively close just downstream of the bridge would have created a stir thirty years ago. I still enjoy watching them darting about stirring the mud and snapping up small fry. Above the bridge only bird of note was a single Common Sandpiper.
What at first glance appeared to be a small wader in a shallow pool on right hand side of the exposed mud downstream of the bridge, revealed a Water Pippit in my binoculars, up to its knees in water!
