North Duffield Carrs and Blacktoft Sands.

A day of changing plans. North Duffiled was my first stop about 1030 am.

The water level is slowly going down and as a result the birds are a bit further away.

a buzzard kept flying over the water and this caused the waders to take to the air. Lots of lapwing, golden plover, dunlin , ruff and redshank. On the water were lots of wigeon, teal and pintail.

No birds on the water or near the scrape.

After sitting for a while I decided to go to Blacktoft Sands. Ousefleet ws my first stop where there was plenty of activity.

Not as much activity on Marshland and Xerox lagoons. A buzzard was causing a stir in front of First hide. It would fly from a bush to a fence post and then glide over the top of the reeds. This upset the marsh harriers who kept "buzzing " it. The sunshine had now gone and the strength ofthe wind had increased. Marsh harriers came into roost but not in large numbers.