Decided to take a late visit to Brandon Marsh with Mike-PCC on Thursday evening. Trouble is, I forgot how early it gets dark and left it a bit late to do any serious birding. I arrived at the site at 19:00pm and by then the gloom was beginning to set in already. Before dusk fell, I did manage to count between 15-20 Snipe on East Marsh but gave up after their shapes merged in with the mud in the gloom.
We decided to make our way up to Carlton Hide to sit and wait till darkness fell completely, in the hope of seeing the Barn Owl. The hide was full of photographers and lots of chat but as the light faded so did the company until it was just us two.
Unfortunately for us, with a slight drizzle, no Barn Owls turned up but as we sat silently and waited we were rewarded with sightings of two Otters at the back of the scrape, a fantastic sight.
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