Fudge duck at Abberton

I took Suzanne to see her brother in Tiptree on Thursday so nicked an hour at Abberton where I found the reported Fudge duck and managed to get news out for the other guys up there hoping to see it.

I counted 58 species whilst there from both causeways and a very quick scan from Wig bay hide.

The highlights were 25 Spoonbill, 18 Great White Egrets, 5 Spotted Redshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers and a Wheatear.

My first year tick for a while where I've been working the reservoir so hard.

Who's have thought we have scenes like this in Essex

Cattle Egrets at Cornmill meadow

The patch is still keeping me enthused but on the way home Thursday I popped into Cornmill meadow to check the scrape but instead found three Cattle Egrets in with the small heard of Cows and didn't make it to the scrape using my time instead to photograph the Egrets which looked to be a pair with one juvenile.