North Duffield Carrs

 

The view from the Geoff Smith hide this afternoon. it looked as if the water on the scrape was frozen.

At first I could not see any birds on Bubwith ings, but a couple walking their dog, flushed lots of wigeon, which were sheltering from the wind. I walked down to the garganey hide. one part of the path is wet as water drains off the field. Near the "flower" field I saw lots of linnets, chaffinches and yellowhammers.

Garganey hide is still open, but the handle has come off the door.

These are the views from the hide. The water to the left of the hide is still frozen and bird free.

This is the view looking towards the farm. The wind is coming from this direction and blows directly into the hide.

The top of the bund is just visible, and canada geese, pintail, wigeon and teal were standing on it. As I scanned along the bund I spotted 2 black-tailed godwits and 2 redshanks.

A pleasant but cold couple of hours.