Other birders set off to look and listen for a Savi's warbler, but we decided to stick to our original plan to walk around the reserve in anti-clockwise direction.
Just past the East hide we stopped and listened to a song thrush, blackcap, willow warbler, chiffchaff and willow warbler. In the distance we could hear a cuckoo. From the turret hide we added whitethroat, reed bunting, cetti's warbler and a little grebe with young.
A sedge warbler showed well as we walked along the edge of the set aside field. Rooks and lapwings were in the ploughed field and several whitethroats were in the hedge. At the corner we stopped and looked for a cuckoo, and were pleased to see two fly out from the trees and fly in front of us.
We were unable to locate any young tawny owls in a large willow tree. We observed several sand martins flying into holes in the sand martin bank. Crossland hide was the venue for lunch. Very few birds to be seen from this hide. Where are all the waders?
After lunch we walked down past the new workings towards the new hide, which is still not open for visitors. We saw several common terns on one of the islands along with shelducks with a large number of ducklings.
On our way back to the car park we called in the South hide. Black headed gulls were on the raft and we could see several young. 3 common terns were busy fishing, but we did not see any sign of them nesting.
A pleasant day with good company and a bird list of 46 birds.
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