Three Golden Plovers low over the A27 were a surprise plus the more usual roadside Kestrels and Buzzards. Very blue and sunny but sub-zero with big windchill making the hides unusable, doubly so with all the wild area covered in staff raking reeds and hence no birds other than Shelducks. The Water Rail hotspot had a big yellow digger in it which ruled that out and everyone else was sat on the wall trying to get shots of a single Lesser Redpoll. Another case of birds feeding behaviour being affected by people; a sightscreen in front of the feeders would be very welcome here.
At least two Hawfinches were calling along Mill Road before lunch; later in the afternoon it was silent in the increasing wind with just two mewing Buzzards over the castle wind-hanging joined by two Ravens close overhead.
