I'm going to go over the 4 days we were visiting there, spreading them over 4 entries.
Day 1 - March 20th, 2009
We spent most of this day travelling from our home here in Wales to get to the church farm site. We made it in plenty of time, seeing many birds along the way, including countless buzzards, wood pigeons, kestrels, and many many rookeries.
As soon as we got our keys to the caravan we were staying at, we headed off to the nature reserve to take a bit of a stroll. Immediately Mark spotted something new in the pool nearest the haven site - it was a red-breasted merganser, a stunning male. He wasn't very close, but we took several snaps of him (which we improved upon later).
There were plenty of other birds about, this haven site has an abundance of wildlife just on site. You could hear loads of greenfinches buzzing, a green woodpecker yaffling, house sparrows, tits, plenty of wood pigeons, rabbits, and a variety of seagulls as well.
Further off on the nature reserve, in the same pool as the merganser, there were tufted ducks, goldeneyes, coots, moorhens, great crested grebes, and mallards. Along the shoreline of this pool you'd also see the occasional redshank. To the right of this pool was the mudflats. The sun was in that direction, so little could be seen other than a few redshanks and you could hear the curlews making some noise.
By this time the light had mostly faded, so we took some sunset photos and called it a night.
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