Ham Wall in the heat

Next stop was an  RSPB reserve near Glastonbury which is comes highly recommended by birders and seemed to good to miss as we were in the area. It is a very large  reserve but if I were you it might not be best to visit in July as it is the time to get your optics serviced.

• No birds are singing.
• The heatwave was pitching at 34C, passerines had vanished.
• It has large reedbeds which were over 2m high so it was difficult to see over them. 

The plan was to do the main path and a couple of the loops but once we started walking we realised this was overambitious in the heat. Suffice to say the day was cut short and birds were few. We logged 24 species and the best was a nice reed warbler, a dozen cattle egrets, a great white egret  and a red kite. 

Glastonbury Tor

Peacock butterfly

Sand martin hide which the sand martins don't use, there's a cattle egret bottom right. 

Typical view - coot, mallard and mute swan - maybe. 

No year ticks, no lifers  and no patch updates either, but we went to the coast at Burnham-on Sea for a sea breeze and an ice cream.