Upstream, noticeable is a very large herd (>1000) lappingand about 600 golden plover 8 little egrets in the field, one gray heron in jail, a buzzard on a fence post.
I met Mark Saunders struggling in the mud on his way to the hideout, Caroline Pickett was already there. He had a close encounter with pale harrier flying over the hide, hopefully an image to follow, Mark and I arrived just in time to see it reappear from the east and fly over Corse to hunt on the northern side. In a crazy few minutes a man sparrowhawk it buzzed, and it contacted another ringtail, probably us hen harrierlike a woman marsh harrier appear Looking at my photos later it seems I caught all three harriers in the same two shots, although which ringtail was which at this point I have no idea. The 4th bird is a shadow, I think. Things went quiet after that, though there was a big one stock pigeon herd on the edge of Kilpaison. A little egret potters in front of the skin, some ducks (mallard, teal, shoveler) along the water to the R of the skin you can no longer see, because of the new fence. Flying snipe parties. I left around 11.
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