16th March

A wonderful spring day, wall to wall sunshine and light winds; a walk down the River Teme from Leintwardine first thing produced four singing Chiffchaffs, five Mandarin, a Green Sandpiper, two Dippers, a Goosander, 6 Little Egrets, two Greylag Geese (probably a site tick for me!) and a Grey Wagtail.   A look around Benthall Pools late morning then produced two more singing Chiffchaffs, excellent totals of 52 Canada Geese and 6 Greylag Geese (record totals for me here), two Little Grebes, four Teal and loads of soaring Buzzards in the fine weather.

Mandarin

Little Egret