The 'Summer Wine Crew' arrived at Minsmere at around 8.15: perhaps unsurprisingly we hardly met another birder for most of the morning! To be honest there wasn't an immense amount of birds either: the only waders on the East Scrape were Black-tailed Godwits, but the several dozen Pintails were good to see. Now I'm bound to be shot down here, but surely this has to be a Caspian Gull?
All the usual winter highlights were in evidence: Bearded Tits, Stonechats, Mipits, Kingfishers, Marsh Harriers, Water Rails and so on, but a very interesting raptor was the female / juvenile harrier below: the question is: why has it only got four 'fingers'?...
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