3.45pm - 6.30pm, beautiful sunny late afternoon/early evening.

Abram Flash:

A few pairs and individuals each of mallard, shoveler, tufted duck; approx. 10 Canada geese, 2 mute swan, great crested grebe pair, 6 lapwing, 2 coot, 1 moorhen, 1 male reed bunting, 1 grey heron. 

2 Sedge warbler, 1 blackcap and 2+ chiffchaff heard on path to Lightshaw Flash; in the field to the south of the side-path, approx 100+ wood pigeon, approx 20+ lapwings, a few collared dove, mallards, Canada geese and pheasant, 2 oystercatcher, 1 carrion crow

Lightshaw Flash: a few reed bunting, 1 magpie, approx 5 greylag geese with a feral domestic goose, a few shoveler, lapwings (flying to and from the field), 2+ mallard, 1 stock dove, 1 cormorant, 2 black headed gull, 2 commic terns, 2 greenshank, 1 redshank, 1 moorhen, 1 buzzard over, 1 little egret, 1 kestrel on grassland by the east screen.

Lightshaw Lane had 1 yellowhammer, and fields to the south of Lightshaw Lane were being ploughed, with a few lapwings flying about.