Thursday 21 April 2016

Great views of 6 Stone-Curlew + Grasshopper Warbler.

Just Jimmy & I set off for the Brecks in Suffolk to look for Stone-Curlew, as we pull up we are greeted with our first Cuckoo of the year calling away.
Within 5 minutes we have located 3 Stone-Curlew & we have the best views we have ever had of them & then we see two more plus one on it's own all within a small area.
They walk about in the open ground for all of the hour that we watch them, they are a bit far over the back by the silver birch trees, we could see them with the naked eye but through the scope they are fantastic.
Stonechat,Wheatear,Skylark, all seen while here before we head off to Lakenheath RSPB that is only a short trip away, only 3 cars in the car park before us & not to many people about as we walk the top track in the hope of at least hearing a Grasshopper Warbler.
No luck & we end up walking the whole way down to Joist hide at the bottom of the track, a Hobby would have been nice from here but once again no show.
We do get to see one of the Cranes fly in & land over the back. Loads of Marsh Harrier are flying about & a bonus when a Bittern flies up not to far away from us & another one flies into the reeds on the other side of the watch point.
Then a Cuckoo flies by for our first view of the year & we hear at least 3 while here.
On asking a fellow who had just turned up at the watch point if he had heard a Grasshopper Warbler on the way down, he says yes up by the new hide, so in no time we are up there & within a few minutes we are hearing one reeling away,  it went on for a fair while getting longer as it went on, a bird flies out of the bush that we think it is in & heads off over the reserve, not sure if it was our bird but the reeling stopped so maybe it was.
                                                                           
                                                                     
As near as my camera could get.

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