Another cold, clear and quiet morning, a lone Shoveler over LFGP North, but looked to be dropping onto Lodge Wood Lake. The last pair of Teal, no wader, but 'the' Lapwing.
Nothing on BSL, nothing in the car park field, then a year tick, a Garden Warbler giving bursts of song just on the right at the left bend in the tarmac path. I was asked which tarmac path and I still don't understand the question, we only have one tarmac path that runs from the car park to Bittern hide and 40 yards after John's bench, it kicks hard left. I guess if you wanted to be funny, you could say there are 2 if you state that the section before the footbridge makes it two?!
Anyway nothing else to report, I went back at lunchtime after getting 2 Linnet over my garden, but apart from lots of Buzzard and Kite and then 2 House Martin to the West of LFGP, nothing was happening.
It's not doom and gloom by the way, 123 species is the 3rd highest year total by end April and equal with 2013, one more and it is = 2nd place with 2003. It will take a good wader passage, plus a few more bonus birds to reach or pass 2012's 128.
That one more will certainly happen in the form of Hobby, beyond that we need a weather change to bring some waders in.
As for the month we need one more to match 3rd highest March of 106 of 2015, 6 more to match 111 in 2003.
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