11:15am to 3pm. Weather: grey, overcast, chilly, slight cold breeze (NE).
Spring visit looking for whinchat & first visit in a while.
Carpark.
Blackcap - heard.
Swift - 100+; the biggest gathering of swifts I'd ever seen accumulated over the marshes next to the river. A very impressive sight from the carpark, even more so when I got closer as I walked along the river.
Magpie, Starling, Great Tit, Chaffinch.
Chiffchaff - heard.
Song Thrush, Shelduck, Woodpigeon, Whitethroat.
Visitors' Centre Feeders.
Collared Dove, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, House Sparrow.
Riverside.
Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Comorant, Mallard, Black-Headed Gull.
Whimbrel - 2 overhead.
Jackdaw, Crow.
Common Sandpiper - one low over the water, wingbar & flicking wingbeats.
Wheatear - 3 females, 1 male, along the river defences.
Skylark, Linnet, Dunnock, Blackbird.
'Serin Mound'.
Coot, Moorhen, Grey Heron, Herring Gull.
Back along river.
Kestrel,
Lapwing,
Swallow - downstream over the river.
Reserve 'Wood'.
Long-Tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Robin.
Sand Martin - overheard North-West-ish.
Lesser Whitethroat -heard but remained hidden in the thick brambles though I waited a while for it to show.
Cetti's Warbler -heard.
Hide.
Tufted Duck.
House Martin - a couple in with the sand martins.
Pochard - 5 male, 1 female.
Mute Swan, Gadwall, Pied Wagtail, Great-Crested Grebe, Little Grebe.
Scrapes.
Little Ringed Plover.
Shoveler - 3 males overhead.
Canada Goose - 2.
Sedge Warbler.
Pools.
Greenshank.
Visitors' Centre.
Greylag Goose - 2 then 4, as I headed back to the centre.
Stock Dove - 1 at the feeders.
57 species recorded, none new.
When I departed, setting off up the A13, a very probable Cuckoo flew over from the reserve.
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