Sightings

Blackcap – 2 Sedge Warbler – 2
Egyptian Goose – 3 Great Crested Grebe – 7
Pochard – 1 Tufted Duck – 20+
Shelduck – 10+ Long Tailed Tit – 7
Cormorant – 2 Reed Bunting – 1
Reed Warbler – 4 Common Sandpiper – 5
Lapwing – 2 Willow Warbler – 2
Robin – 4 Wren – 2
Heron – 4 Black Headed Gull – 20+
Grasshopper Warbler – 2 Chiffchaff – 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Barnacle Goose – 1
Hobby – 2 Green Woodpecker – 1

Lackford Lakes, Suffolk 4/5/08

scree!

Overnight the skies over Bury St Edmunds have become home to the returning Swifts and their wild and playful calls fill the last Bank Holiday afternoon – dive bombing the brewery tap and the little pond at the edge of the brewery complex – it’s so much fun to hear and see them chaffing the edge of sanity with their twists and turns and scree-scree-scree. But then, if you’d just traversed the globe, migrating thousands of miles, wouldn’t you be whooping up and saying ‘hi hello, I’m back, whadda ya think? Pleased to see me? Either way, I’m damn glad to be here, don’t ya know.’ Reckon. For it gives me the springtime jitters n’ judders, the thrill of the burgeoning year right there in the ecstatic outpouring and unchecked aerobatics, and it makes me pleased to be alive – sentimentally or nay . . . go figure!

Bury St Edmunds, 4/5/08