Despite the poor weather, Ellie and I headed up on to the Somerset Levels for a mid-afternoon walk. As we pulled in to the car park at Ashcott Corner the rain eased off and we walked out as far as the second viewing platform at Ham Wall RSPB. As we walked along there were several low flying Swifts whizzing around and as it had just stopped raining, there were lots of birds singing, including Common Whitethroat and Blackcap. We had hoped that we might get lucky and see a Little Bittern that had been seen the previous day, but there was no sign of the bird. We did see two Bitterns in flight though.
We then walked back to the car and on to Meare Heath, walking as far as the drained lagoon. On here we saw a Redshank, a couple of Lapwings and twenty or so Black-tailed Godwits. As we looked about we could see a bank of dark clouds rapidly approaching so we returned to the car just in time to avoid another heavy shower.
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