Nice morning at Minsmere.

I spent a nice morning with the boys walking around Minsmere. The aim was to try to see the Honey Buzzard that had been seen a few times over the last few days in the area.
We start off  walking anti clockwise & stop to look form the hide just in case the Western Swamphen had shown up after not having been seen on Saturday, sad to say we see no sign of it but that was what we expected so not to much of a disappointment & worth a look as you never know.
On the scrape we see Common & Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover,Dunlin, Godwits, Avocets,many Sand Martins speeding about all making it a nice pleasant morning with the sun starting to really warm up.
A walk round to the sluice area gets us a single Wheatear that stayed about for some time for some photo opportunities.the Swallows were entertaining us & a Kingfisher showed up to add some nice colour.
A walk round to the next hide gets Jimmy & I a year tick when about 10 Little Gulls are seen on the back of the scrape along with over 20 Spotted Redshank also a Greenshank seen.
With no news of the Swampy we set off in search of the Honey Buzzard.
We head down a long winding narrow road until we reach a clearing & find a few cars already parked up & looking for the Buzzard, it had been seen very early on but we spend over two hours scanning the sky & it never showed for us, it was now a fairly breezy morning & that didn't help.
While here I do pick out a Spotted Fly & a tree Pipit to help with the year ticks.
While here we meet up with a couple that we have not seen for a couple of years so a good old catch up, memo to self really must ask people for a their name.
So no Honey Buzzard & no Swampy but over all a really nice morning birding.


                                                             

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