With their continued march to seemingly all corners of the country it was only a matter of time before we got a group of Cattle Egrets locally. Thanks to Ben Potterton putting the news out on our local WhatsApp group I was able to take the short drive out to between Brockdish and Needham to see a group of 6 loosely associating with some cattle. A single Little Egret also joined them.
My first long walk following a little health scare was with Belinda along the Deben from Melton to Woodbridge and back. I was a bit out of breath at the end but onwards and upwards!
On the mud of the estuary I counted c75 Avocet, c300 Lapwings, c200 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Grey Plover and a single Dunlin. Right at the start of the walk a Kingfisher was at close quarters by a footbridge over a dyke - before it saw me (!) and a Grey Wagtail flew over.
There was a rare plant in the town that I wanted to catch up with and when I got to the area near the Co-op in the town centre I found it had taken over the area! The species in question being Tall Nightshade.
