We have had an exciting week at Fairburn Ings, the Crane sighted last week stayed on the reserve over the whole weekend, but was seen flying off the site on Monday morning.  (For those of you who are concerned, Bryony did get to see the Crane before it left the reserve)  The Crane created a real buzz here and aroused the interest of lots of people who drove past the hoards of birders who had set up their scopes by the road.  It has been seen flying a few miles away, so we are hopeful it will return to Fairburn Ings.

Amongst our other more unusual visitors this week we have had a possible Dartford Warbler seen from the Lin Dyke hide, a Dartford Warbler has been seen in the Yorkshire region this year so it isn’t entirely out of the question that one could have strayed our way.

Many of our visitors have heard the Cuckoo and a few lucky people have seen them at various places on the reserve.  Nearly all of our visitors have been able to see the newest arrivals to the reserve.  There are some Canada Geese goslings regularly seen down at Pickup Hide, we have a family of Tree Sparrows on our nest cam and some newly hatched Coot chicks on our pond-dipping pond.