Tretio

Got there about 1730 a cold breeze taking the edge off a glorious late winter / early spring day. I was slightly surprised to be on my own.
Snipe and pheasant called and something remarkably like a tree pippet that I could not work out. I also could not work out what the LBJ's were that arrived in several flocks of 30 -60 birds and crashed down into the heather, probably mippets.
I heard a distant but odd goose like honking and then saw a swan flying by at some distance, without a scope I cant be sure but was probably a whooper. It eventually descended in the general direction of Tretio Common with the plantation in the background.
A single Kestrel clocked in as the first raptor of the session but as the darkness began to close first one and then a second Ringtail came in from behind me, skirting the eastern side and then both briefly hunting amongst the willow carr and rushes etc in front. One only showed briefly the other fanned about for a while before dropping into the vegetation. I left about 18.30 quite contentedly. allthingsgood, cliff