19th April - mostly sunny, cloudy late afternoon, light breeze,14C

First thing a Lesser Whitethroat was singing east side of the village from the hedges.  The Green Woodpecker was calling loudly again.

A report of Black-tailed Godwits at Stanford reservoir made an evening visit worth making.  When I arrived al but one Godwit had departed.  At first it looked good for a Black-tailed when it flew it did not show the white wing bar and Chris Hubbard had some digiscoped photos which we examined.  These photos clearly showed the bird to be a Bar-tailed Godwit, a much rarer visitor to these parts.

Photo C Hubbard