No Spoonbills ..........

23 Sept - A family party of 5 Spoonbills spent the night at Slimbridge in the heavy rain, and seemed settled on South Lake early morning, but they departed prior to my (and others) arrival, the prospect of 5 birds at close range being too good to resist. The usual waders present including one of the Spotted Redshanks on South Lake, but the best sighting was the very confiding female Garganey, probably my closest-ever views of this species.