Just been out for my afternoon walk to see the new migrants arriving. Great to see the cetti's warbler has made it through the winter months and is blurting out his explosive call from the silt lagoon thickets.
Mike Warren and Graham Gamage both had a glimpse of a bittern over the weekend, great to see more sightings and probably another bird moving through on passage east.
The sand martens are up to around 40+ now and are darting around phase 2 where little ringed plover, green sandpiper, redshank and 5 little egrets are all dipping in and around the shallows.
Other arrivals this week have been chiff chaff and willow warbler, and as John Ellis notes the avocets have always turned up in the first week of April - so fingers crossed...
float like a butterfly