After recent reports of Cattle Egrets in a roost south of Ham Wall, I visited there yesterday from 5.40 pm. After 15 minutes scanning from the railway bridge and seeing only cormorants, I returned to the car park and was about to leave when a flock of 5 Cattle Egrets flew over the car park followed at intervals by other flocks of 3 and approx 16 at 6.15 in gathering gloom. They headed towards the roost area but I didn’t go back to the bridge to check. There were small but significant flocks of Starlings and Pied Wagtails also passing over.

21-Sep-2017 (15:30)
Flock of 11 Cattle Egrets with 20 Little Egrets in grass field immediately south of Meare Village - viewable from public footpath, entrance off B3151 just west of Downs Orchard (housing-estate road).