Bearded reedlings everywhere.

 

My view from Marshland hide at 0745 this morning. All the white dots are spoonbills.

I counted 16 birds, some feeding while others rested. A mixture of adults and young birds, how many I wondered came from Fairburn?

Cormorants, greylag geese and mallards on the water, plus various waders.

On the mud at the bottom of the reeds were bearded tits. They were on the mud on every lagoon. They were a fair distance away, but allowed the visitors an opportunity to see them. 

These were some of the 35 I counted from the hide at Singleton.

I visited 5 hides and counted just over 100 beardies.

Time to open the visitor hide. A very day with lots of visitors, who all went away happy having seen the spoonbills, beaded tits, spotted redshanks, ruff, greenshank, green sandpipers and black tailed godwits.