Minsmere

Another great day at Minsmere - due to Covid - this was the first visit after around eighteen months.

Always plenty to see around the reserve.  From the east hide, ten summer plumage spotted redshank were present out on the scrape along with a couple of green sandpiper, black-tailed godwit, and two stunning ruff in breeding plumage.

The raucous sound of breeding gulls and terns including hundreds of black-headed gull, sandwich tern, and a few meditteranean gull and little tern were present on the islands.

A couple of lovely male dartford warbler were present along the beach and three garganey (1 drake and 2 duck) were seen from the south scrape hide while searching for the roseate tern that weren't seen during the afternoon.

A short vigil from the Bittern Hide hoping for the purple heron that failed to alight from the reedbeds was a real pleasure watching marsh harrier on feeding sorties.  A single hobby was seen flying over the reeds.