A bright and sunny start to Xmas eve this morning. I started at Lin Dike screen and was rewarded with views of lots of egrets.
At least 9 great white egrets, 4 little egrets and 2 cattle egrets. The smaller egrets were in the vegetation and were difficult to see. The great whites on the other hand were constantly squabbling and chasing each other about.
Mallards were feeding on the mud in front of the screen.
The teal looked smart in the morning sunshine.
I could see goldeneye, cormorants, wigeon, shoveler, shelduck, grey heron, canada and greylag geese and lots of black-headed gull. One of which was nearly in summer plumage. A marsh harrier and a red kite were looking for food and kept disturbing the birds.
This robin came to join me.
After a couple of hours I drove to the visitor centre. At the moment there are no feeders at the first screen, so I walked a little further around the boardwalk.
Blue, great and long tailed tits along with chaffinches and goldfinches. A kingfisher flew up along the ditch.
A pleasant morning.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
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