After the last couple of days I haven't got many of my 9 lives left! Managed to get the Softrak out on Thursday but it was a bit of an ordeal as we managed to get the rescuing digger stuck twice. Thankfully, after about 4 hours, both machines were back on hard ground and my heart rate could return to normal!

Not much time for looking at birds over the last few days with everything else going on but another 3 species to the list. Cracking common buzzard sat on the grazing marsh fenceline and barn owl on Thursday and a flock of 11 mistle thrushes west late this afternoon (possibly the largest flock recorded on the reserve) takes the total to 105.