The river bursting its banks at Ladywalk is nothing new, and it sure does make a mess. Right now, the water is receding, but the volunteers who do so much to look after the site will be working hard to clean up. The good news is that the reed bed development project, which included the building of new islands, needed a flood to raise the water level. As the water recedes to a natural level, we'll get to see the full benefit of the work that was recently completed. The A hide is accessible with good welly boots. The B hide, needs the water to go down a bit as I'm told the water is very deep just before the steps into the hide (water went over the top of his boots). Take great care at the entrance gate because there's a lot of debris to wade through close to the gate itself. Great to see large numbers of teal, wigeon, shovelers, gadwall and mallards with a few gorgeous pintails too. No sign of the escapee (presumably) swan goose when I was looking.
