Stone Curlew + 2 more year ticks

Up early to meet up with Brian, we had made our mind up last night to head to Suffolk.

First port of call is Weeting Heath before the sun gets up, so we have a clear view over the ground where we hope to see Stone Curlew.

Only in the hide for a very short time before we pick out the target bird, we get to see another one close by & get good views in the scope, a good year tick to start the day off  right. We now head to Lakenheath, on arrival we hear the first Cuckoo of many that we see & hear while hear.

On the walk down to Joist hide we hear a Crane,but it never showed today.

At the hide we see many Bearded Tits flying back & forth across the channel, over the back 4 Marsh Harriers give a good display plus a food pass that failed.

Bitterns were booming all over the place & one flies up for us to get a short view of it.

A quick look in the new hide proves to be a let down this time with nothing showing apart from another sight of a Bittern.

Back up by the visitor centre we get another tick with a Garden Warbler, we also see a nice Kingfisher fly across the pond not needed for a tick but always nice to see them. 2 Hobby fly over the trees plus Buzzard & Kestrel seen,Brian needs a Grasshopper Warbler but we can't find one here today.On talking to one of people in the visitor centre he tells us of a maybe sighting of the Oriole, somebody had reported seeing a flash of yellow so maybe it was the Oriole, fingers crossed.

Also seen a few Swift to give us all another tick for the year.

Cuckoo

Jay