With todays work party taking priority I wasn't out to see the 3 Cuckoo Trev saw at 07:30 over LFGP, a Teal was still present when we arrived to clear the SW corner weeds and willow, plus give the shingle island a rake up, with an attempt to make a few nesting spots an inch or 3 higher by pushing shingle into mini piles.....hard bloomin work, but nowhere near as hard trying to row back against the breeze, I'm told it's all technique.
Anyway, Saturday all I had just an hour and had a second summer Great Black-backed Gull over NW, 2 Common Sandpiper and 1 Teal on LFGP, heard a couple of Reed and Garden Warbler around Lavell's, 1 Linnet over calling, then 30-40 Swallow, House & Sand Martin over BSL.
What I missed was a Raven, Mandarin along the Loddon and allegedly Ring-necked Parakeet somewhere, all in all, if we take all these as genuine sightings, which is fair, then the new April highest ever species count is 112, with 3 days left, we might even add another wader species yet.
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