West end with David and Keith 1700-1900
Little egret across from the hide and a common sand on the bank by the sand martin nest
The heronry end had a large flock of ~40 greylags and 4 egyptians, 4 mandarins, 4 coots and 2 moorhens
On the mud patch just below the heronry were 2 green sandpipers
2 mute swans were swiming the pintail end tonight, along with 6 great crested grebes
Low numbers of black head gulls this end – only counting around 10, 8 adult common terns on and around the rafts with at least 3 chicks visible tonight, a lesser black back was also out the back
Quite a few swallows and sand martins tonigt, with nunbers increasing as it got later
Keith had a kestrel before I arrived, and a buzzard was active low above the trees mobbed relentlessly by the terns
Lovely evening to catch up and chat too.