Scopeless

After a wet morning in Derbyshire at Hen Harrier Day (maybe more on that in another post), I headed to Girton to do my WeBS count, then realising that like the idiot I can sometimes be, I had left my scope at home. So I went to Meering Marsh instead for a walk round, where a scope is less essential. Highlights were an actual wader, in the form of a Greenshank, plus what was presumably yesterday's female Mandarin and a Snipe. In addition, a Swift passed over heading south (seemingly all departed from Newark's skies now), and there were quite a few warblers in the scrub, with Reed, Willow, and Lesser and Common Whitethroat all in evidence.