SUNDAY SNOWFALL

 It was a very dark and wet start to Sunday 10th with rain soon turning to snow through the morning. Not many visitors ventured out to the country park during the day except for a few determined and hardy folk.

 The snow covered all the park including the beach at Cudmore Grove, here mid afternoon at high-tide.
Offshore five great crested grebes, 50 wigeon and a common seal were noted.

 It seemed in some places just under an inch of snow lay about the park, although a slight thaw took place in the afternoon.
A sparrowhawk flew out of the cliff-top trees heading low towards the pond.

The view from the park hide was equally white, especially in the morning whilst it snowed.

Most of the pond stayed ice free where 40 mallard, 8 gadwall and a little grebe were of note as well as ten little egrets in the trees.

Twenty greylag geese were feeding in the nearby grazing field and a kestrel hovered over the saltmarsh at the Point.

In the nearby Bromans Lane wheat field 200 brent geese were feeding on the snowy field. A muntjac deer crossed the lane early in the morning as day broke.