Blacktoft Sands has been getting all the Spoonbill action over the last week or so, but happily this morning a visitor returned to the centre to tell us a pair of the stunning birds had dropped in to see us at Fairburn too. They were last seen about 40 minutes ago at midday feeding on the opposite corner of Pickup Pool. For anyone who hasn't been to Pickup Hide its the first hide only a couple of hundred metres from the visitor centre, along the Discovery Trail.

Also from Pickup were a pair of Oystercatchers and several lapwings including some chicks scampering around on the middle island.

On your way to Pickup Hide see if you can spot the sedge warbler that has been singing its heart out from the reedbed behind the owl statue. I watched it from the small pond dipping platform where he was perched in the little willow tree. These pools are also good places to catch sight of smooth newts as they drift up to the surface.

For those of you on the hunt for kingfishers we've had 2 sightings today, one from Lin Dike and one at the pond dipping platform.

Also at Lin Dike have been 2 common terns, 2 cuckoos, willow warbler, blackcap, willow tit, sedge warbler and green woodpecker.