Local birding

Trittiford has been dead over the past month but still nice the Coots, Great Crested Grebes all on there nests and as I write this 27/05/17 the Great Crested Grebes now have two chics :)
The Geese and Mallards have all had chics too.
There has been no sign of the Mandarin Duck for a few weeks now, and the Little Egret numbers have gone down as expected they would of gone of to breed now, but there still has been a few spotted at Old Mill pond and around Trittiford also a few Swallows now about :)

Bullfinch

Bullfinch

Had a nice walk round Shirley park on the 15th of April with House Sparrows going in and out of there nests with food for there young, and also as soon as you enter the park all you can here is the beautiful Willow Warblers love that sound :)

Willow Warbler - Shirley Park

House Sparrow - Shirley Park

On the 14th of April Dave went to check Seeswood Pool I decided to give it a miss my last words were ring me if you get a Ring Ouzel joking lol. He had only been gone 20 mints when I got the phone call babe I have a Ring Ouzel lol I couldn't believe it, I headed up there but it had flown off I did get a quick glimpse in flight but I was just happy for Dave he has put so much time and effort into Seeswood it is nice for him to get some reward for that hard work he also had a Redstart the other day too which was also brill :)

Stone Curlew, Ring Ouzel, Nightengale, Firecrest and more

An early start on Sunday for the Stone Curlews at Weeting Heath, Norfolk, lifer for me and so lucky because we got excellent views, Daves best views of them aswell was really nice to have the chance to see these birds and photograph them, the man that worked there was so nice and helpful :)
These birds are just out of this world, that big yellow eye, and beautiful brown patterned plumage and yellow beak, such eye catching birds :)
We then went to Paxton Pits in Cambridgeshire where I sore my first Nightengale lovely to see and hear we had walked all the way round and hadn't seen any but then as we were walking back up Dave heard one then we start there and it showed :)
Then as I thought we were heading home, but as we were driving I kept thinking none of these sign posts are saying midlands, then I saw the signpost for Mepal in Cambridgeshire and had read before that there was Ring Ouzel there, and I said are we going to see Ring Ouzel and Dave said yes bless him I had driven him crazy all weekend about Ring Ouzels lol, we got there and it was an old airfield and I was thinking I bet they won't be here, but Dave found them in no time, five of them just out of this world to finally see them, lovely views through scope, love these birds so much there's just something about them :) and it was extra special because Dave went out of his way to get them for me, best boyfriend in the world, and I promise not to moan again lmao all the birds today have been amazing but the Ring Ouzels really made my day :)
Also on today's travels I saw my first Firecrest at an undisclosed location, beautiful little bird so bright and cute :) so happy to have seen one.
Monday morning we popped to Middleton Lakes before Dave took me home, and got 2 more lifers Reed Warbler and Lesser Whitethroat that's 11 lifers this weekend unbelievable :)