There was no sign of the Pallid Harrier at the realignment area in the morning before the onset of the heavy rain.   However, the bird reappeared in the drier afternoon and delighted watchers as it hunted over the realignment and took protracted rests on the fence posts and a bramble bush by the car-park at Stonebridge.   Eventually, it departed south across the fields at 1530.

         Most of the time was spent on the harrier so some of the other counts between the RAF base and Pye's Hall are incomplete.   Best were 25 Twite, 2 Bramblings, 40 Redwings, 2 Fieldfares, 2 Woodcocks, 10 Long-tailed Tits, one Chiffchaff, one Short-eared Owl, one Little Owl, one Peregrine, 400 Teal, 700 Brent Geese and 86 Shelducks.