Thanks to Richard for joining me and to Adam who contributed to the count when we happened to be in the hide at the same time as each other.
The recent rain means a nice lot of water currently present on the Corse. I wonder how well the water will hold this winter after recent required drainage work. Most of the birds counted were from upper corse farmland section.
We had a flock of 548 lapwing which later started to move from upper corse to feeding on the fields opposite the hide. A small flock of 38 Golden Plover were also present. We recorded 5 Curlew, 3 from upper corse and 2 over hide area. A flock of 24 Graylag and a little egret was also present on upper corse.
We had 160 Black Headed gulls on the upper corse along with a handful of Lesser Black Back and Herring Gull to finish the gull species off.
As for ducks we totalled 92 Mallard, 17 Shoveller, 29 Wigeon, 43 Teal and 4 Pintail.
The 2 Grey herons and a lone Moorhen were added when we met Adam.
Think the highlight again was the female Kingfisher who kindly flew about in front of hide but she then flew to a fence post a little too far away for an image.
As Richard and I started to walk back a sparrowhawk flew past us which was the first raptor of the day.
I walked the ‘snipe’ field which added to the at that time single figure count to total 49 birds. On the way back across the field I picked up on a kestrel which was hovering over adjacent field.
The Marsh Harriers decided to be shy today and did not make the count but know there were 2 there a week ago. No water rail were heard today, yet there were a few shouting at each other from within the reeds last time I was there!