Spent a couple of futile hours SE Owl watching today, out on the marsh there were two people with two dogs running riot followed by four people with one dog with ball sling for pooch to retrieve, birds flushed or disturbed by same were
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Redshank
Snipe 8
Pinkfoot 1
Mallard
Wigeon
Teal
Egret
I hope they gained maximum enjoyment in disturbing and distressing our local bird life
Sunderland Brows Farm
45 Twite
27 Fieldfare
Very brief glimpse of Stoat with kill, I think it was a bird.
On the village side
3,000 lapwings were sharing roosting space with a 1,000 Golden Plover, winter wonderland
Many Black Tailed Godwit, Dunlin and Wigeon.