Every now and then we get a day where the birds just perform well and everything happens at once.
The morning started well with a drake garganey on the grazing marsh pool (later it moved to the fresh marsh) and the pair of red crested pochards were showing on the fresh marsh. The bittern was seen well from Fen Hide and the first male eas heard 'grunting' from the reeds on the edge of the grazing marsh pool. At about 12:15 a radio message came into the office of 6 common cranes moving west along the ridge to the south of the reserve. The office emptied and we all had great views as the birds drifted past the reserve.
Things got better in the afternoon as an alpine swift that was moving along the coast passed west through the reserve giving great views. This is the 3rd record of this Meditterranean species in as many years at Titchwell and was a new British bird for several of the staff and a landmark bird for me being my 250th species recorded at Titchwell.
What a great day!!