17:30 > 18:00
Broken cloud, calm 14c.
A quiet evening at the Farm. The Shelduck pair remain as do the small pockets of Wigeon, Teal, Tufted Duck & Gadwall. Seven Goosander all redheads rested together on one headland. Two Lapwing were the first for a couple of weeks but the only other wader seen was a single Green Sandpiper. Other birds of note a Little Egret over heading to the Linford roost whilst one of the local Little Owls was perched in its usual tree till mobbed by six rather unsporting Magpies.
As for the site itself Back Brook's water level is now down to a deoth where flow through is no more and the usual summer pools, a magnet for insect life, are now forming and should remain barring an April flood.
And finally another sign of spring, the first lambs bounding around the top field when I left.
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