Along the bridleway - blackcap (seen and heard), chiffchaff (seen and heard), cuckoo (heard),
Around the wetlands – black-tailed godwit (group of 30 seen, early one morning), buzzard, common sandpiper,
dunlin, grasshopper warbler, green woodpecker, jay,
kestrel, lapwing, little egret, little ringed plover,
marsh harrier (female seen occasionally), oystercatcher,
pied wagtail, ringed plover, willow warbler,
yellow wagtail, wheatear, swallow, swift.
.......... picture Rupert Hartop ....... view from Canal Viewpoint before the diggers came