Carlton Marsh

This morning on the wader scrape - 14 Herring Gulls, 4 Common Gulls, 75 BH Gulls and 2 Foxes, chasing each other at high speed. (Rod Heeley)

At mid-day, still 14 Herring Gulls, 8 Common Gulls, 26 Lapwings, 1 Little Egret and a Willow Tit (not ringed). Elsewhere there were 15 Redwings, 6 Bullfinch and a Kingfisher (Richard Laverack).

When I arrived at 15.00hrs 33 Herring Gulls and 1 adult GBB Gull was on the wader scrape with the Lapwing and the Little Egret. Sitting in the hide, as dusk approached, a Buzzard passed over followed by a Sparrowhawk and then a Woodcock, the first of the year. By now 2 Tawny Owls were calling to each other from the car park plantation.