A visit to a reserve new to me at Krummi turned up a few nice birds, the first of which was a Great Grey Shrike. I'd been hoping to see one there as they seem to be hanging around. Two adult males in the end, hovering like Kestrels at times.
Before I'd seen the Shrike, I'd seen a flash of a large bird, raptor-ish in shape, but with a conspicous white rump, but I couldn't find it again, which was mildly irritating as it landed in the middle of a field and I hadn't seen it fly off. No matter, it showed up again as I was about to leave and I spent half an hour just watching it flying around at very low level, two-tone brown on the back, buff-brown underneath with streaking, white around the eye and a barred tail. A female Hen Harrier. Two lifers in under an hour. I missed the Golden Plover by a few minutes as they flew around and moved off over the other side of the railway line, but I was hapy enough. A Meadow Pipit flew over as well, which is the first oe I've seen in Switzerland this year and then as I was geting near the station, a Fieldfare - first one for me this year.
After that, I went to the Zihlkanal, which connects Lakes Biel and Neuchatel. Not a massive amount about, except for a flock of maybe a few thousand Red-crested Pochard, Pochard and Tufted Duck, along with a few Wigeon and Gadwall.
Also saw a few Great Egrets on the way back, so not a bad day.