Water levels have dropped back to something like our normal winter levels after last week's flood, revealing lots of grassland again. About 100 black-tailed godwits, 55 golden plover and a few ruff and dunlin have made use of it yesterday and today, along with thousands of ducks (mostly wigeon, teal, shoveler and pintail), lapwing and geese (mostly Canadas). A stunning male hen harrier has been daily for most of the last week, often hunting very close to Nettley's hide and Jupp's view and a pair of peregrines were casuing a lot of disturbance over the south brooks this morning. A raven flew and croaked it way south over west mead hide around midday. The field in front of the visitor centre has had around 30 each of fieldfare and redwing on it all day.