It was encouraging yesterday to get out for a short while looking for that Wheatear and see so many Lapwings already sitting tight on nests across the marsh.  I reckon I saw at least ten from the southern trail and there were so many birds tumbling and twisting around that I suspect that there are many more that I did not see.  The air was full of sound with the almost un-natural mechanical pips and wheezes from the Lapwings, the incessant kipping from the Redshanks, giggling from the numerous Little Grebes and serenading Skylarks way up above.

But it was the Lapwings that stole the show... Tony O'Brien captured these lovely shots just a few days ago...   here's to a brilliant breeding season and before too long all this chorus will be joined by the host of summer visitors winging tree way to our shores...

Magic stuff...

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