Cuckoo!
For 2 days now, the cuckoo has been calling from the back of the Reed bed, but as yet we have not spotted the elusive bird!
I have also seen our first 2 Lapwing chicks today, she is guarding them well so you will definitely need your binoculars.
On Tuesday we saw our first Common Tern arrive and Swallows and House Martins continue to fill up on insects from the Sand Martin hide.
TODAYS SIGHTINGS:
LAPWING HIDE: 1 Shelduck, 4 Teal, 6 Greylag & 2 Canadian geese, 2 Shoveler, 5 Lapwing & chicks.
WETLANDS DICOVERY: Pochard, Tufted duck, Canadian & Greylag geese, Gadwall, Little Grebe, Water vole.
SANDMARTIN & RAMSAR HIDES: 2 Oyster catchers, 5 Lapwing, 7 Gadwall, 23 Tufted duck, 9 Pochard, 11 Canadian geese, 2 Greylag geese and 1 Eygptian goose, Swallows and House Martins.
SCRAPE HIDE: 5 Tufted duck, 1 Greylag goose, 2 Gadwall, nesting Black headed gulls.
RESERVE: Cuckoo (heard only), Blue tit, Great tit, Long Tailed tit, Green finch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Pheasant, Cetti's warbler, Reed Warbler, Reed bunting, Black cap, Wren, Robin, Blackbird, Thrush, Nuthatch, Jackdaw, Wood pigeon, Dunnock, Collared dove, Mallard and lots of ducklings, Coots, Moorhens and Mute swans.
