9:40 - 12pm. Weather: cold, windy (SW), rainy.
Another Easter expedition day & another new reserve to visit, this time an early start to get to the other side of the Wash. The weather was miserable but I was not to be deterred in visiting a reserve that has excellent records of some tricky to see species. There was also more evidence of Spring migration & the weather eventually settled.
Car-Park.
Little Egret - in fields from car.
Lesser Black-Backed Gull (over).
Lapwing, Greylag Goose, Swallow.
To Visitors' Centre.
Greenfinch, Great-Crested Grebe, Mallard.
Visitors' Centre to 360 Hide.
Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, Snipe.
Reed Bunting - several flitting alongside the path.
Skylark - several singing enthusiastically.
360 Hide.
Mute Swan, Coot, Brent Goose, Shelduck, Shoveler, Tufted Duck, Redshank, Wigeon, Canada Goose.Herring Gull, Black-Headed Gull, Black-Tailed Godwit.
Ruff - 1.
Pochard - 1 female.
Gadwall, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Magpie.
Reedbed Hide.
Linnet - a few flitting amongst the vegetation of the 360 scrapes.
Twite - c20; from the hide I looked back to the 360 scrapes & I saw a flock of what I assumed were the earlier linnets. However as I looked closer I noticed yellow bills & the penny dropped that these were in fact twite, which I had hoped to see at this reserve. Before I could get another look after checking the field guide they flew off twittering distinctively towards the East Hide, which was a bit frustrating!
Yellow Wagtail - no sooner had the twite disappeared than this wonderful bright bird perched on the pathside wire in good view of everyone in the hide. It then flew down into vegetation before disappearing.
Pied Wagtail.
WHITE WAGTAIL - with the pied wagtails a few distinctively paler individuals, a nice bonus & a UK-first for me after last seeing them when I lived in Germany 20+ years ago!
Avocet.
East Hide.
Curlew.
Visitors' Centre.
Whooper Swan - 2, a nice pair from the centre.
Crow.
40 species, 1 new species.
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