Thursday afternoon saw the start of six hours of glorious, steady rain which come Friday morning had wetted up pasrt of the new Purfleet Scrape and attracted the main flock of Canadas and Greylags to feed on the disturbed rhizomes. Just need more rain to make all the new systems work properly. Hopefully not too long to wait now although the Environment Agency are still talking about drought conditions lasting into next year.... fingers crossed.
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer