Northiam Station
27th June 2008, FridayI stopped to look at some floodwater just NE of the level crossing, since it seemed very busy with birds. They were mostly Black-headed Gulls and Starlings with Swallows twittering overhead.
There were a few Lapwings along the edge, a Pied Wagtail , a Heron and 4 smaller waders which turned out to be Green Sandpipers.
A crowd of well-grown young Mallards stretched their necks up out of the grass and beyond them was a very strange female duck with a single duckling. It was only when they headed for some willows that I realised they were Mandarins in an uncharacteristically exposed location.
The flood is at TQ837267 and can be overlooked, without disturbing the birds, from a roadside gate, though it is better to park up the road.