Ellie and I popped up to Meare Heath for a walk before lunch, and were amazed to find a mass of cars at the Ashcott Corner car park. Despite this we managed to find a spot that everyone else appeared to have missed judging by the number of cars left in the road.
We then took a walk out towards Noah's Lake, and within a few yards of the car Ellie spotted a Great White Egret fly over towards the Ham Wall RSPB reserve. We then paused to look over the drained lagoon and before long I located the Lesser Yellowlegs which had been present for several days. Today had been our first chance to take a look at it. Also on the lagoon, well over fifty Black-tailed Godwits and a Redshank.
Continuing on towards Noah's Lake we stayed on the main track as we had been warned that the hide was filled to bursting. This meant a somewhat restricted view, but we did see at least ten Hobbies feeding high in the sky, we also saw three more on the return to the car.
We decided against a walk out on to Ham Wall and instead came on home for lunch.
UK list for 2011 now at 215 species.
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