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Message: <blockquote data-quote="captaincarot" data-source="post: 1664229" data-attributes="member: 80825">thanks for the comments guys.hobbs that water rail was a lifer for both me and bornwild, she took the pics.we had to go and pick up the biggest fleabay bargain of the year today.400d 18-55 battery grip 3 and half gigs worth of memory and 10 batteries plus a remote for 250 notes. me very happy bunny. it was on our way to marshside nearly too only a short detour so the rest of the day was spent wondering how many more curlews we would see i've actually seen more today than in the whole rest of my life i know for a fact that there were at least 9 birds there and possibly up to 30. trouble is they were all flying about like mad and calling so counting them was rather difficultwhile looking over the marsh someone asked us if we'd seen any black tailed godwits.which we hadn't and told them so.then we went and looked over the reserve itself and i'm guessing there were at least 300 of em.lots of canada goose a fair few greylags and a small group of 10 or so pinkfeets.masses of teal in the hundreds again and at least a dozen pairs of pintail.to be honest not enough daylight to see everything that's there.</blockquote>