A wonderful sunny and warm day for our annual pilgrimage to the RSPB's flagship reserve.

Species Observed

Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Cormorant Grey Heron Bittern x3 Mute Swan Greylag Goose Canada Goose Common Shelduck Wigeon Gadwall Common Teal Mallard Shoveler Common Pochard Tufted Duck Marsh Harrier Sparrowhawk Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Common Pheasant Water Rail Moorhen Coot Oystercatcher Pied Avocet Common Ringed Plover Lapwing Common Snipe Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Common Redshank Common Sandpiper Dunlin Ruff Common Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Black-headed Gull Kittiwake Sandwich Tern Common Tern Wood Pigeon Collared Dove Cuckoo Barn Owl Short-eared Owl Great Spotted Woodpecker Green Woodpecker Skylark Sand Martin Barn Swallow House Martin Meadow Pipit Pied Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Wren Dunnock Robin Nightingale Common Redstart Stonechat Blackbird Song Thrush Mistle Thrush Cetti's Warbler Grasshopper Warbler Reed-warbler Blackcap Willow Warbler Chiffchaff Bearded Tit Long-tailed Tit Marsh Tit Willow Tit Great Tit Blue Tit Treecreeper Magpie Jackdaw Rook Carrion Crow Starling House Sparrow Chaffinch Greenfinch Goldfinch Linnet Reed Bunting

Minsmere from the Air The magnificent sight of hundreds of Sand Martin nesting in the sand bank at Minsmere View across the marsh from the new bittern hide A wonderful sight - the gorse in flower all over the reserve.

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