A walk this afternoon from Warsash Harbour car park up the River Hamble to Bursledon and back.

A Great Crested Grebe fishing on the river. These birds seem to spend more time in the sea and rivers than in lakes and ponds in our area this time of year. I guess there is no risk of the water freezing and preventing them from feeding.

Britans largest wader the Curlew.

I normally take photographs of Sanderlings on the muddy banks of the Hamble Dunlin favour this environment whereas the Sanderlings prefer the sandy shore at Meon beach.

Redshank get their name from their legs!