A rather unseasonal last visit to Upton for us today, it felt more like Autumn than 31st December with the ‘warm’ temperatures and cloud bursts!
From the Hobby hide we saw: water rail, reed bunting, gadwall, shoveler, mallard, sparrowhawk and moorhen. The feeder was busy with blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits and robins. A song thrush was heard in almost spring song!
A nice variety of birds seen from the Lapwing hide included 3 common snipe, 8 curlew, lapwing, grey heron, tufted duck, common pochard, shoveler, teal, mallard, mute swan, coot and moorhen. At dusk a little egret flew over, 6 little grebe roosted together by the islands, a cettis was heard and a water rail was busy feeding along the margin. Our final sighting was a muntjac deer in front of the hide!
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