Warm, dry and sunny, NE 3-4 - A much milder day for our early morning Ted walk around the farmland to the north of town where Cetti`s, Reed and Sedge Warblers were all in song in the reed-fringed sewers and ditches, while a Hobby showed well snatching emerging damselflies from the New Cut. Also noted along the way a few Skylarks, Linnets, Yellowhammers and Swallows.
An afternoon visit to the bird reserve yielded a decent spread of birds with a count of 64 Gadwalls on ARC from Hanson hide being most unusual for this time of year; where also 12 Pochards and six Shovelers. Several pairs of Ringed Plovers, Common Terns and Black-headed Gulls, plus a pair of Avocets appeared to be in breeding mode, while a drake Red-crested Pochard and a second year Mediterranean Gull were also present. Viewing Burrowes in bright sunshine with most waders on distant islands is never a very rewarding prospect, although a smart Grey Plover and three Turnstones were closer on a sand bar in front of Firth. Also noted elsewhere across the lake: 20 Ringed Plovers (most probably of the tundra race), two Grey Plovers, a Sanderling, two Dunlins, two Knots and two Little Stints.
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