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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 3555404" data-attributes="member: 7131">April 21st; part IAfter a day of playing in parks and visiting museums the team was fully recovered and ready for another day out. After an early start we headed on up to Weeting NWT, but with a slight detour to an unassuming patch of sandy, bushy heath where even before we'd parked up we could hear our quarry. A couple of Nightingales were filling the gloomy morning with their rich throaty notes, and before long we had one staked out. Expecting it to be deep in cover it took me a while to realise it was delivering its iconic warble from high up in a sycamore shrub in plain sight, offering up seriously prolonged walk-away views. An excellent start to the day. So, next up, Weeting, famous for Stone Curlew, always a treat, saw them last year but didn't find Woodlark, which I'd seen here in the past, so that was today's target here. Unfortunately after an hour splitting our time between west and east hides there was neither sight nor sound of any Larks other than Sky, and while we enjoyed the traditionally kak distant Weeting views of Stone Curews and Sam managed to grip me and Arch with a brief Stoat we had other fish to fry and moved on. I don't know if Weeting is no longer the Woodlark site its NWT web page would suggest or if we'd just been unlucky two years running, but I think I may be taking my business elsewhere for this species in future. Not to worry, well worth popping in to reacquaint with old Goggle-eyes.We breakfasted at a cafe in Lakenheath village and then headed to the RSPB reserve for the rest of the morning, arriving just as the visitor centre was being opened up by a fellow who genned us up on where to look for what. Plenty of Marsh Harrier activity over the reeds kicked things off, and Reed and Sedge Warblers were yelling their heads off left right and centre but I was having the devil of a job clapping eyes on any. Oh well, a pair of Garganey flying in and dropping onto the water in front of the first watch point did a fine job of keeping the interest alive.</blockquote>

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