Not-quite 3 hours in the pouring rain with two small children in tow netted 32 species including many tufted ducks, 4 garganey, a single oystercatcher, more mallards than you could sake a stick at, several mandarin ducks, a multitude of both sand martins and swallows, mute and Bewick's swans, black-headed gull in profusion (many nesting), shelduck, coot, moorhen, wigeon, blackbird, canada and greylag geese, crow, jackdaw, magpie and rook, pied wagtail (but no greys in the netted area), pheasant, robin, wood pigeon, feral pigeon, teal, lapwing (including about a dozen chicks), Cetti's warblers and two common terns. The only raptor of the day was a distant buzzard, not really in the reserve, to the east. All of which just proves to me that if I can list that many without really paying attention (and how many could it have been if we'd actually reached the reed beds?).... This of course includes some resident birds you wouldn't perhaps expect to see elsewhere locally at this time of the year and excludes all the "exotics" they have there, such as the white-faced ducks and Emperor geese.

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