The Great White Egret must have roosted. It spent the morning preening on the main scrape giving excellent views. It did become a little more animated this afternnon feeding in the semi open reed beds and was still present at dusk.(J. Plant/R. Laverack/CG)
A very strange song from a Wren gave us the runaround this morning until we finally saw it actually singing. I have to admit it stopped me in my tracks when it repeadly sang this very different song without reverting back to type. I pass this way everyday and have never heard this song before or in all the years I have been birding. I have come across crows with a malfunction in the voice box, but this Wren really was very different. The trill-like song lasted about 3 to 5 seconds each time and was repeated every few seconds as it did a circular of the trees in the northern meadow.
Meanwhile 2 Green Sandpipers and 3 pairs of Teal were on the wader scrape. In the reed beds 1 singing Reed Warbler and 2 Sedge Warblers. A pair of Kestrels were displaying over the main scrape and a Meadow Pipit flew over.
An Oystercatcher flew south at aboot 11.30hrs
This evening 2 Little Ringed Plovers were on the wader scrape. (Dave Standish)
Cudworth Common
Buzzard, 4 House Martins and Ringed Plover at Symphony (Les Corrall) In his Cudworth garden Mistle Thrush with 1 young. The adults harassed by a male Sparrowhawk.
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