Banks Marsh & Marshside

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Neville Root
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Banks Marsh & Marshside

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Sunny and clear on Banks Marsh, although birds (as is usual here) were distant - mainly pink foots, lapwing and wigeon, lesser numbers of dunlin and redshank. Marsh harrier took out a redshank, with peregrine and perched merlin close by. Hundreds of whooper on the fields towards Marshside, where there was a raptor watch behind the old sand works - ringtail and 3rd/4th year male hen harrier both hunting, several merlin, more marsh harriers, kestrel, buzzard, peregrine - only a sprawk was missing.
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