From Mark Cherry - I
was literally half a dozen paces from the car when another visitor closed their
car door and drove away, putting the bird up. It had emerged from reeds, barely
30 yards downstream from the bridge, was south of me by the time autofucus had
caught up. It settled in the reeds, west of the
barbed wire fence and that was the last I saw of it.
At the SE corner of the
fen, a Great Spotted Woodpecker overflew me, landed in a stand of trees, calling
for a minute or so then appeared on a trunk, pecking for grubs. Not drumming,
for a change. Back at the car, my first Swallow sighting of the year and another
unidentified hirundine, distantly in the binoculars but no booming and I set off
just after 6pm.
