After a day in College I got out late walking towards the pits. There wasn't much about but the forage beans were emerging on the "halved" field on the way down.
Things were fairly quiet on the first pit, but I did put up a nice Grey Heron (out of a pair found there) which was reluctant to abandon the causeway to me and perched on a fence post for a while.
before eventually flying off,
The second pit was almost equally quiet, short of many of the ducks, geese and gulls that had been there the other day. However there were 38 Lapwing and a single Grey Heron on the central shallow roost.
Total estimates of bird numbers for the day were 6 (plus 1 juvenile) mute swans, 80+ coot, 3 greylag geese, 11 tufted ducks, 50+ gadwall, 2 mallard, 3 great crested grebes, 8 little grebes, 4 black-headed gulls, 3 grey herons, 38 lapwing, 1 green woodpecker, 2 fieldfares, 1 blackbird.
Things were fairly quiet on the first pit, but I did put up a nice Grey Heron (out of a pair found there) which was reluctant to abandon the causeway to me and perched on a fence post for a while.
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