Shoveler - Manor Farm - Spring 0917:00 > 17:30
Warm, humid, sun, broken cloud, strong SW wind at times.
Good news, the newly cleared area has had water pumped back in to leave many pools and channels, lots a hotspot in the making.
Two Green Sandpipers already in the area but as work just finished many other birds avoiding, probably best last thing at night or early morning although there looks to be only a few days work left before the earth movers move on.
Out on the mud a handful of Black Headed Gulls were joined by three Lesser Black Backed Gulls and a Herring Gull while on the clay islands a single Common Gull roosted.
Out on the water a pair of Shoveler were a new addition.
Thirty Lapwing and a single Little Egret completed the visit.
On the butterfly front, in the warm sunshine a last few Painted Ladies flitted about.
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