Rain, rain and yet more rain!

On Sunday 5th January, it rained all day! However, when news of the RND came up I drove straight to Thorpeness and parked right by the Meare, I was able to scope the Meare and immediately spotted 4 Goosanders, 3 male and 1 female. Initially I couldn't see the RND, I saw a fine male Pochard and then up popped the fine male Ring- necked Duck which was constantly fishing and diving. Timely news of the Bean Geese just south of Ness Point, after excellent direction from the Fregusons I walked from where I had parked around a 1/3 of a mile north, underneath the ornate Tudor arch following the road right, past allotments and a heath and then to the cliff top field where the rain has eased off and the 2 fine Bean 'rossicus' Geese were in the extreme north- east corner of the field feeding just beyond a ridge. I watched them for 10 minutes and then left them as I walked back to the car. I then drove to North Warren, where I saw around 15 Lapwing, and various Geese but no White- fronts. It started to rain heavily. So prompted again by the Fergusons I drove to where I thought was Botany Bay near Snape. I couldn't reack the Bridge from opposite directions as the road was completely flooded but a very kind local lady, told me where the bridghe was and said it was a 1/4 mile walk at most. So I parked up just before the flood, waded through a foot of water and spotted the white posted bridge just after the bridge was a very muddy well trodden track which I walked for 200 metres to the mound that overlooked the flooded field, with 2 main lake areas, after scanning for 30 minutes I had seen around 30 Carrion Crows which had initially flown up into a tree further down the track. Looking at a 3 distant trees, the Crows were perching up in these trees, I spotted the fine Hooded Crow sen flying and obscured by the tree until it perched up on the top left of the tree.