On site yesterday...

• Staff and volunteers from the RSPB's Top Lodge shop in Fineshade Woods and their fine display of optical equipment
• Seven of Langford Lowfields established volunteers who were joined by three new recruits
• Twelve members of Burton and South Derbyshire RSPB Local Members Group

Also:

Four avocet (including two fledglings)

At least three green sandpipers

One common sandpiper

Two greenshank

One hobby

At least seven little egrets

Numerous juvenile pied, yellow and grey (two) wagtails

The above image shows Warden Paul Bennett showing some of our volunteers our Phase 1 sluice (image courtesy of Barrington Randle)