Quite a lot of bird song this morning, the days are getting noticeably lighter in the mornings now.
More Redwing and Fieldfare in the fields to the east again, they moved off NW.
Visited Brandon marsh during the afternoon, the recent high water had clearly made quite a few birds move on, fewer ducks than normally seen, though Teal, Gadwall and Shoveler were numerous.
Cormorants were present looking fine in their breeding plumage.
On east marsh there were 3 Great crested Grebes, while out side the Carlton hide a Little Grebe pair were displaying, interestingly they often spent a while out of the water on the bank.
There was about 50 Lapwing present, some giving display calls and flight, some will already left their winter areas heading back to breeding sites. Another breeding visitor to Brandon is the Oystercatcher, one has returned this week and was present today.
A Cettis Warbler was noisy in the reeds, then flew across the gap in front of east marsh hide to disappear into the reeds again.
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