The day began bright and sunny, but a fresh 2C. It remained sunny throughout giving a splendid day with temperatures rising to 6C. We began with coffee and cake before setting off on our usual route around the reserve other than heading from the north car park straight down to Mill Hill and the beach in the hope of finding shore lark and snow bunting. We were unlucky in this partly owing to the fact that rising sea levels and very high tides are creating serious erosion and eating into the dunes.
We saw 47 bird species during the day, highlights being superb views of a pair of red kites on Jackson's Marsh and on Tennyson's Sands a marsh harrier mobbing a fox. From here we also had supeb views of a sparrowhawk perched on a post close to the harrier. Along the track down to Mill Hill a hunting barn owl gave amazingly close views.
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