With only 30 minutes left to last light when I was clear of other duties it was back to Shelf Moor to check the Lapwing/ Snipe count which was low in both instances.
Got three parts through counting the Lapwing flock 4 times when each time they were spooked by the horses and lifted off before landing so I could start the count again.
Just before I left at near dark a Sparrowhawk came over flushing the flock which moved lower down towards Shelf roundabout.
Snipe were active but several moved over to the Spaniard Hall quarry site.
A heart stopping moment when a small bird landed at the edge of the marsh which I thought was a Lapland Bunting until I got on it properly and found it was a winter plumaged Reed Bunting which was then joined by a second bird.
226 Lapwing
17 Snipe
2 Reed Bunting
c100 Starling
6 BH gulls.
1 Sparrowhawk
2 Kestrel
BS