Further days of squally, windy, rainy weather, Sunday being the worst of the two days. Nobody ventured out yesterday, hence no blog but cabin fever struck today and I ventured up to the RSPB hides in the afternoon rain. Last time I was up at the hides there wasn't any open water in sight and the whole area was being topped by large tractors. Today it looked back to its good state with masses of water and birds congregating. From the South Hide there were 5 Ruff and 4 Black-tailed Godwit along with a good tally of 40+ Snipe. The North Hide had a couple more Black-tailed Godwits, another Ruff and a Greenshank. Wildfowl numbers were building up with plenty of Wigeon, Teal and Mallard plus about 40 Pintail - but all the ducks are in that drab post-breeding eclipse plumage still. It was far too wet for any sensible raptors to be out and there were no American passerine vagrants on the woodland trail.
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