An early morning trip to Waltham Abbey See's Jimmy & I in the Bittern hide at Fisher's Green by 8.30, we meet a local birder & spend over an hour looking in the hope that a Bittern would show, no such luck today but we do get a tick when a Water Rail walks across the channel.
Walking back to the car we spot many Redwings in the bushes & feeding on the ground among the leafs.
It's in the car & we drive down Fisher's Lane to Hallmarsh scrape & meet up again with the fellow from the hide & he gets us onto a Common Snipe to give us the second tick of the morning.
Onto Friday Lake to search for Goosander, we scan the lake to no avail but 2 Redhead Smew fly into view & land to give some nice views.
So on the walk back we scan Hallmarsh again as a Jack Snipe was reported yesterday, once again no show but we do pick up a tick when we pick out a couple of Mistle Thrush on the grass over the back of the scrape.
Off now to Connaught Waters to see if we can spot the pair of Goosander that Brian tipped us off about, it doesn't take us long to find the drake but no sign of the female.
So off home with 4 ticks & we keep the year total moving, up to 129 now.
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