Cuckoo

Not quite what I was after but it keeps the list ticking up nicely. Rode out to Ring Haw looking for Ring Ouzels in some storming habitat but ended up finding yet another Redstart. Another spanking male. We've now had 5 Redsarts in the area of which I've seen 4 and found 3!

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Nightingale

Up reasonably early to get to Castor Hanglands before work. Many possibilities here at the moment (Raven, Mandarin, Tree Pipit, Pied Fly, etc.) but three singing Nightingales was the only addition to the list.

Best though was a male Redstart followed by a nearby female. Good to find my own but I wish I could have nailed the probable Tree Pipit that flew over while I was watching them.

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Arctic Tern

On the way home from work found three Arctic Terns on Gunwade Lake. Great birds to find, and another species I didn't get last year.

That's three great species in as many days at Ferry Meadows. What next?!

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Lesser Whitethroat & Little Egret

Lesser Whitethroats appear to have moved in in force over the past couple of days and the ride in via Haddon and Orton BP got me four singing. Then a lunchtime sprint out to the High Wash finally netted me 3 Little Egrets.

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Black Tern

Mike found 2 Black Terns at Ferry Meadows in the morning - the first to be reported anywhere in the country this year! I had to get the car to and from the garage but managed to nip out in the evening to bag these beauties and see the vast numbers of Sand Martins, plus fewer Swallows and a few House Martins, swarming over Gunwade Lake.

Two great birds in as many days at Ferry Meadows. What next?

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Redstart

He's done it again. Don Gardener is like a magnet for Redstarts and found a corking male on the Coney/Oak Meadow boundary at Ferry Meadows today.

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Cetti's Warbler

Good decision to go to Bradley Fen pit this lunchtime. I thought there might be a chance of an Arctic Tern or Little Gull but more than happy with Water Rail and Cetti's Warbler - another species I failed to get last year.

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