The WEBS count this morning was pretty quiet on the duck front but 618 Lapwing in the surrounding fields with maybe more in the fields just north of the road was a pretty good count but the 300 or so Golden Plover we saw there a couple of days ago were hiding well.
In the fields just west of Trehill the farmer has sown a nitrogen fixing crop which is absolutely alive with finches - impressive flocks on the move all the time around the sheep too - at a guess at least 1,000 birds and could be many more. Needs a good look to see what species (from a distance Chaffinch and Linnets at least) and permission from the farmer to get down the fields towards the west end of the Mere