Spring Floods

April appears to have been the wettest ever - well i recorded 5.4 inches (137mm) for the month. This was nearly the combined total of November through to March!
This has resulted in the inevitable flash flood - wait 24 hrs and up goes the water. All that extra water has to go somewhere - and in this case its over the banks and into the central and northern parts of the meadows - including the new snipe area.

So out on the flood today were over 20 Mallard - plus 3 very small ducklings, 3 pairs of Tufted Duck, probably about the same Gadwall, but maybe more, a pair of Little Egrets, 3 Lapwing and 2 Wheatear which were standing rather incongruously on an island in the flood!. This evening (when the above photo was taken) I added 7 Yellow Wagtails to the ornithological goodies!