My first efforts came over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. This was the 6th and 7th of May. On the Sunday I visited the gravel quarry at Broom which was interesting and productive given the weather wasn't at all conducive and rather living up to what one always expects from a Bank Holiday - cold, wet and miserable.
I managed to find a few warblers including managing to see a lesser whitethroat before a common whitethroat this year. Walking alongside a hedge, I was aware of a common whitethroat singing from within and patiently waited for it to perform its aerial song flight. After a few minutes, nearby, there was a sudden out burst of the distinctive song of lesser whitethroat and the bird broke from its cover and flitted rapidly away to hide itself further along the hedge. Around the reed fringed pools nearby came the songs of reed warbler, no doubt recently arrived from their Trans-Saharan migration.
The usual array of waders were present as ever, those being Redshank, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Ringed and Little ringed plover.
The following day's walk was cut abruptly short by rain, having only been out for an hour walking the fields closer to home. But just before the rain did set in I was fortunate enough to at least find three migrant Wheatears. Unfortunately, the prospect of a photograph put the birds into panic mode and by the time I'd got my camera ready they had vanished almost as quickly as they'd appeared! How strange as a similar thing occured last autumn at the same place when I found a Whinchat.
The following is a species list for the two days
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06-May
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07-May
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Blackcap
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Blackbird
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Black-headed Gull
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Blackbird
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Buzzard
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Blackcap
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Buzzard
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Blackcap
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Canada Goose
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Blue Tit
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Canada Goose
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Blue Tit
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Chiffchaff
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Carrion Crow
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Common Swift
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Carrion Crow
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Common Tern
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Chaffinch
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Coot
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Coal Tit
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Coot
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Collared Dove
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Gadwall
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Dunnock
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Goldfinch
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Goldcrest
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Great Crested Grebe
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Goldfinch
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Great Crested Grebe
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Greenfinch
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Green Woodpecker
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Jackdaw
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Grey Heron
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Jackdaw
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Grey Heron
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Linnet
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Greylag Goose
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Long-tailed Tit
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Greylag Goose
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Long-tailed Tit
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House Martin
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Magpie
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Lapwing
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Robin
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Lapwing
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Rook
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Lesser Black-backed Gull
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Skylark
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Lesser Whitethroat
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Starling
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Linnet
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Wheatear
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Little Grebe
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Woodpigeon
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Little Ringed Plover
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Woodpigeon
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Mallard
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Yellowhammer
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Mallard
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Moorhen
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Moorhen
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Oystercatcher
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Redshank
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Reed Warbler
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Ringed Plover
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Sand Martin
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Sand Martin
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Shelduck
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Song Thrush
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Swallow
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Swallow
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Swift
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Tufted Duck
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Tufted Duck
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Whitethroat
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Willow Warbler
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Yellowhammer
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