A single crane dropped in (again? or was it a different bird from last week' pair?) on sunday afternoon and roosted on the reserve overnight. This one left at just after 10am the next morning (no early starts for cranes) and spent a few minutes gaining height, wheeling high over the reserve before heading off NNE.
The first little ringed plovers have now arrived and one of our volunteers reported the first snatch of nightingale song coming from the scrub near the hanger viewpoint yesterday.