Tuesday 14/04/2020

 Plenty of singing and nest building Linnets at the moment

Another day of persistent bone chilling NE wind made the walk to Dengemarsh feel much longer than usual. There didn't appear to be much in the way of new migrants just a few each of Swallow and Sand Martin. The Sedge, Reed and Cetti's Warblers were very muted, yet again another Cetti's posed for me. It was good to watch a male Blackbird managing to collect worms for its young from the rock hard ground, then watch some of the Marsh Harriers displaying. A Peregrine despatched a feral Pigeon, another Whimbrel flew over, an unseen Greenshank was calling and still 2 Garganey at the back of Dengemarsh, bring on the warmer weather and get the migrants flooding in.

 Despite the cold the Sedge Warblers are still singing albeit half heartedly

 Blackbird managing to find worms for its young despite the ground being so dry

  Another posing Cetti's Warbler

 Bothe the Geese still sat tight just a few yards apart

 Displaying Marsh Harriers

 I don't see many House Sparrows across the fields

This pair of high flying Great-crested Grebes flew over my house and would have been a new bird for the house, the only problem I was 200yds away in the field looking back! 😂