Weather: warm, bright but cloudy. 4 to 5:30pm.
A quick stop at Welney for the reported bluethroat with Kim on the way back to London. We were told that it hadn't been seen for most of that day & it proved to be the case for us too despite lingering in the area with a few other hopeful people.
Car-park to Hides:
Swallow - one on footbridge before visitors' centre, apparently nesting underneath the boardwalk!
Skylark - heard. Swift, Goldfinch, Pheasant, Lapwing, Grey Heron, Collared Dove, Jackdaw, Crow, Starling.
Blackbird, House Sparrow, Wren, House Martin.
From Lyle & Allport Hides:
Avocet x2.
Whitethroat, Mallard, Coot, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Canada Goose.
Woodpigeon, Mute Swan, Common Tern.
Reed Warbler, Black-Tailed Godwit, Shelduck, Shoveler, Moorhen.
Back to Car-park.
Sedge Warbler, Linnet, Pied Wagtail, Kestrel.
Turtle Dove - on the drive out from Welney towards the roads back to London one flew up from the roadside, from a puddle & off into the hedgerow. Always nice & sad that it's become an infrequent sighting nowadays.
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