Various aching joints meant a reluctant start to the day. A and B arrived about nine, their helicopter left half an hour early. After they'd left to breakfast at Mumfords, I called a taxi and we drove to Porth Hellick. A cloudy day so I wore my coat. We took the loop road before reaching the first hide, waiting for a half hour or so in the open wooded area half way round. Chiffs and eventually, a Yellow-browed Warbler called as it zipped across the boardwalk not to be seen again.
The Geoffrey Sussex Hide is tiny, room for five sitters only. We soon found room to sit and watch ten beautiful adult Whooper Swans feeding in front of the hide.
Well hidden behind clumps of dark green sedge on the left, a single Jack Snipe bounced into view, whilst a Water Rail fossicked along the back reed -bed edge. A delightful Grey Wagtail pirouetted and dashed along the mud, tail wagging madly, Porth Hellick at its best.
We dragged ourselves away to the next hide in order to make room for others. Just us here to view the 4 Greenshank and a single Common Snipe.
We lunched at the bench overlooking the bay at high tide. A few Ringed Plover, a Whinchat and a few Greenfinches and Rock Pipits the sole birds present. Home via Salakee Farm and the bench at the Tremellethen Loop trail before Spider drove us home to prepare the evening meal for all four of us.
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