Friday 4th May

Noticeably colder today though the floods had gone done a little bit. Still some good waders around though not quite the variety of yesterday. The highlights today were: 1 BAR-TAILED GODWIT, 1 WHIMBREL, 3 COMMON SANDPIPER, 3 DUNLIN, 2 OYSTERCATCHER, 2 LITTLE EGRET, 4 SHELDUCK, 2 WHEATEAR and Donald Degenhardt reported a WHINCHAT which is another Patch Year Tick. There were loads of hirundines hawking low over the floods again though despite a careful scan I wasn't able to pick out anything rare.