It was a beautiful Spring morning for our birdsong ID walk on Saturday. The wildflowers were putting on a lovely show. Eight folk came along, welcome all, and in spite of there being some notable exceptions, we saw/heard 37 species. The highlights, besides the many singing warblers, were – a close fly -over of a Sparrow Hawk, a Kingfisher, and Martin took an excellent photo from the hide of two Great White Egrets passing over , while the rest of us were having a great view of a very vocal Reed Warbler.

Full List-

Woodpigeon , Collared Dove, Coot , Great Crested Grebe , Herring Gull , Lesser Black-backed Gull, Cormorant , Grey Heron 

Sparrowhawk , Buzzard, Kingfisher , Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay , Magpie , Jackdaw , Carrion Crow , Blue Tit , Great Tit , Swallow 

Cetti’s Warbler, Willow Warbler , Chiffchaff , Reed Warbler , Blackcap , Whitethroat , Wren , Treecreeper , Starling, Song Thrush 

Blackbird , Robin , Stonechat , Chaffinch , Bullfinch, Goldfinch , Greylag Goose, Mallard.

Many thanks to Dave Carrington for leading