Coombe Hill Meadows    This morning five adult Mute Swans and seven cygnets, three adult Canada Geese including a pair with five goslings, 40 Mallards, a Little Egret, a Great White Egret, three Coots, two adult Avocets with three chicks, two adult Oystercatchers with a chick, 10+ adult Lapwings with four broods of chicks, two Little Ringed Plovers, five Curlews including a pair with chicks and at least two Redshanks. Also a Cuckoo, several Redstarts, a Garden Warbler and the usual Reed and Sedge Warblers, Whitethroats and Chiffchaffs, a family of fledged Blue Tits and singing Reed Buntings. (Mike Smart).