Saturday 18th January

A day of 2 halves, separated by tge Leeds game at lunch started with a meet at 8.30 at the dragline for a 9am start of the organised jack snipe flush - but it became clear as we were walking down to the sluice, the RSPB had sabotaged our plan by doing their own 1 man flush around the main bay.
70-80 golden plover overhead put me on to 90, and we continued with our flush - but sadly nothing other than 4 snipe and a stonechat.
On the way back we got water pipit again and lesser black-backed gull was new, so it hadn't been a bad morning.
Searching for skylark we found some really good looking jack snipe habitat but no birds.
Back home for dinner and the football before headed back to the hide for the roost.
Very quiet, no owls but I did pick a pink footed goose out as it flew in with a skein of greylags took me up to 92.