A marked contrast in the weather compared to yesterday, after a morning of continuous drizzle the afternoon was still overcast but the quality of the light was very good and the nagging southerly wind had abated. Common Teal numbers were up on yesterday but still very low, I found a total of 29 throughout the site with only three on the basin; other wildfowl included three Canada Geese, the first of the year, three Shelduck, the female Pintail on the basin at dusk and 22 Tufted Duck; two Redshank were on the creek and a solitary Stock Dove flew purposefully north. A Song Thrush was singing in the ecology park with phrases that included a car alarm and an incredibly good Ring-necked Parakeet flight call which had me searching the sky in vain a couple of times; as dusk approached around 50 Greenfinch came in to roost in the trees behind the Esso garage, the first time I've seen them since last January; the only other passerines of note were six Reed Buntings commuting between the pylon and linear reedbeds and feeding acrobatically on the phragmites seedheads.
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