On the marsh this morning at around 1100, I was really deflated when I arrived to discover an almost total absence of birds and particularly the Little Gulls that I had seen and photographed yesterday. That  had been such a great experience. It was almost unbelievable, no ducks either, where are they I wonder? There was the odd swan and a distant small group of Canada Geese. Dave Stone joined me and we chatted and waited for a few minutes before I decided to return home to pick up some equipment with the intention of going to look for Little Grebe again. The phone rang and it was Dave, from the marsh still, telling me that he had an adult now in pool by the middle car park. I quickly returned and started to watch the bird in really good light. Eventually I took some nice pictures. This  bird was never joined by the other adult, nor juvenile as yesterday but apparently later in the afternoon there were three again. I watched this adult feeding on flies both on the surface of the flooded pool and also in the air. When I looked at the pictures back on the computer at home I could definitely see just the faintest suffusion of pink on the breast which was a nice surprise. Apparently when adults are in high breeding condition this is a nice feature of the species. You can only see these pink hues in the right light.   It was also really nice to see some friends that I have got to know through birding in the area over the last few years, this is a nice bonus to a good day when you can spend it with nice friendly knowledgeable people.