Visits have been few, short and sweet since 29th Sept. I managed 20 mins at Bittern hide 1st Oct around 17:45 and saw 4 Pochard, 6 Meadow Pipit over, 15 Pied Wagtail heading South to an early roost? Based on previous years at least 1 Water Rail is highly likely to be in, but requires a dusk visit. The month ended on 103 species.
This morning I was back out for 07:30 and the sky was fairly packed with Swallows and House Martins, probably in excess of 300 and a Coal Tit called nearby. The car park field didn't look too promising, but on closer inspection there were 3-4 Song Thrush, 5 male and 1 female Blackcap and lone Chiffchaff, 5 Meadow Pipit and Nuthatch calling. Nothing really to speak of at Bittern Hide, except 1 Wigeon and another Coal Tit called nearby.
At LFGP the sun was suitably low to make matters difficult, a Wigeon, Shoveler, Teal, 45+ Lapwing, a few Tufted Duck, 150 hirundines, Meadow Pipit and Skylark was about it, until I noticed a small group of about 15 medium sized, sharp winged birds some way East of the landfill, moving fast North, but I couldn't get enough on them to be sure they were Golden Plover. Along the Loddon 2-3 Siskin and 3 Chiffchaff were feeding avidlyin the Willows opposite the gate into Ron's hide. At Sandford the 4 Pochard were asleep on the oldest tern island.
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