A beautiful hot day at one of my favourite sites, highlights being the lack of people, my first Tawny Pipit, a Hoopoe, 2 Little Egrets and very smart Whinchat and Wheatear.
Mute Swan - 18
Mallard - Not many at all!
Great Crested Grebe - 4+
Little Egret - 2
Grey Heron - 1 immature bird.
Honey Buzzard - 1
Black Kite - 4
Kestrel - 1
Coot - 1 (!)
Common Sandpiper - 3+
Wood Sandpiper - 3
Little Ringed Plover - 4+
Hoopoe - 1
Green Woodpecker - 1 heard.
Blue-headed Wagtail (flava) - At least 2.
Tawny Pipit - 1
Sand Martin - The colony is swarming with birds.
Wheatear - 1 male and 3 females.
Stonechat - 1 singing male.
Whinchat - 1 male.
Nightingale - At least 4 singing.
Whitethroat - 1 male.
Garden Warbler - 1 singing.
Tree Sparrow - About 10
Cirl Bunting - Male and female present.



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