An overcast, sometime drizzly morning spent at Minsmere, there wasn’t too much in the way of passage migrants with a 2cy Little Gull on East Scrape and an adult Spoonbill which flew north the highlights.
It was great as always though with lots of booming Bitterns – plus four sightings of birds in flight, plenty of Bearded Tits, especially around Island Mere, lots of breeding Avocets, a few sitting and loafing Common Terns, Sandwich Terns, Little Terns and Mediterranean Gulls on the scrapes with the Black-heads, a Little Ringed Plover, 9 Black-tailed Godwits, a Common Sandpiper, 60+ Kittiwakes calling and chattering to each other as they collected mud for their nests just down the coast at Sizewell, Marsh Harriers cruising around, a Hobby, plenty of singing Blackcaps, Reed, Sedge and Garden Warblers and a pair of Stonechats with fledglings.
Also of note were a few colour rings which I managed to read which comprised a Norwegian ringed 2cy Great Black-backed Gull ringed in Oslo last year, a Norwegian ringed 2cy Common Gull also ringed in Oslo last year and seen on the Gann Estuary in South Wales in December, a French ringed Mediterranean Gull, also seen in Sussex last autumn and a Cormorant ringed at Abberton Reservoir in Essex in 2013.
The long-overdue first Spotted Flycatcher of the year was caught back at Landguard in the afternoon.
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