A Snipe also feeding on the muddy margins of the main pool...

And a female blackbird feeding on the hawthorn berries along the hedge...

10 days after arriving from their summer on the moors, these two male Stonechats are arguing over territory - this morning they spent half an hour chasing each other round the hedges....

while this Linnet sat watching their antics...

The elusive Water rail, caught on camera, searching for food in the muddy margins of the main pool...

The Kestrel sits looking over the newly cleared scrape...

it offers an excellent hunting ground ...

The Stonechats are returning for the winter ... this one sitting above a Reed Bunting...

and a Greater Spotted Woodpecker is checking the dead trees for grubs....