A nice morning at Minsmere in calm, sunny conditions; there were a few waders on the scrapes including a Pectoral Sandpiper from South Hide (been there a couple of days), just 4 Avocets, a Grey Plover, 135+ Black-tailed Godwits, a Knot, 2 Ruff, a Sanderling, 4 Dunlin, 18+ Snipe, a Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Spotted Redshank and a Greenshank along with increased wildfowl since my last visit including 315+ Barnacle Geese, Shoveler, Gadwall, Teal, Wigeon and Pintail.
There were few other migrants around with a trickle of Meadow Pipits, House Martins and Swallows heading south, a couple of Lesser Whitethroats and Blackcaps and a few Chiffchaffs whilst other birds included a Great White Egret, 2 Bittern sightings, a single remaining Common Tern, 2 Kingfishers and 6+ Stonechats.
In the fine conditions the Bearded Tits were very active, flying up high with lots of small flocks whizzing around everywhere, Dartford Warblers were very obvious as well with a male in full song and a couple more were flitting about and like everywhere else, Cetti’s Warblers are starting to sing again.
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