RSPB The Lodge

The fog had mostly cleared by the time we reached Sandy. No sign of the Black Redstarts but I heard my first singing Chiffchaff of the year.

Highlights: Siskin, Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Chiffchaff (heard only), Green Woodpecker (heard only), Great-Spotted Woodpecker.

Great-Spotted Woodpecker

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great-Spotted Woodpecker

Ashwell

The thick fog made it virtually impossible to get any decent photots. No sign of the Wheatears again.

Highlights: Corn Bunting, Yellowhammer, Kestrel, Buzzard, Pied Wagtail, Red-Legged Partridge, Lapwing.

Ashwell

Highlights: Corn Bunting, Grey Partridge, Red-Legged Partridge, Skylark, Lapwing.

Corn Bunting (one of about 20) - only my 2nd ever record.

Corn Bunting

Corn Bunting

Broadstairs, Kent

Highlights: Purple Sandpiper, Fulmar, Rock Pipit, Brent Goose, Ring-Necked Parakeet, Turnstone, Oystercatcher, Mistle Thrush (en route).

Purple Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

Purple Sandpipers

Fulmar

Fulmar

Fulmar

Fulmars

Rock Pipit

Brent Geese

RSPB Fowlmere

Highlights: Hen Harrier (female), Grey Heron, Fieldfare, Wren.

Hen Harrier

Hen Harrier

Hyde Park

Highlights: Tawny Owl, Egyptian Goose Gosling, Mandarin, Green Woodpecker, Great-Crested Grebe, Ring-Necked Parakeet, Song Thrush.

Tawny Owl - male having a snooze in the midday sun whilst the female was on the nest in the tree. The young should arrive in a couple of weeks.

Tawny Owl

Tawny Owl

Egyptian Goose Gosling

Egyptian Geese

Egyptian Goose Gosling

Egyptian Geese

Mandarin - the first I've ever photographed

Mandarin

Green Woodpecker

Green Woodpecker

Green Woodpecker

Great-Crested Grebe

Great-Crested Grebe

Regents Park

Highlights: Red-Crested Pochard, Ring-Necked Parakeet, Grey Heron.

Red-Crested Pochard (seen in flight first, so definitely wild)

Grey Heron

Grey Herons

Whooper Swan

Garden

Not the best photos, but more of a glimpse of the photos I should hopefully get over the next few months...

Male Bullfinch

Female Bullfinch

RSPB Fowlmere

Highlights: Linnet, Pied Wagtail, Fieldfare, Common Snipe, Reed Bunting, Grey Heron.

We sat in a hide for over an hour in the hope of seeing at least one of the two roosting Hen Harriers. We missed the first by ten minutes and the second didn't turn up.

Linnet

Garden

Good views of three Buzzards circling from the garden this morning (I saw my first Buzzard from the house only a few days ago). The male and female Bullfinches have been seen regularly on the feeders since their arrival last week.  I have not yet seen the female Great-spotted Woodpecker again since last week, but here's a photo of the male today...

Male Great-Spotted Woodpecker

Dunnock

Bullfinches and Woodpeckers

Great news! A pair of bullfinches were on the feeders and flying around the garden this morning. Also, a female Great-Spotted Woodpecker was seen in the garden for the first time this year, in addition to the regular male visitor.