Adrian was out early this morning and found three Common Sandpipers at the reservoir. We crossed paths (at an appropriate distance) when I arrived and he was leaving and he told me he thought he'd had Lesser Whitethroat briefly in the scrub along the river. Then as we were stood talking one started singing away over the western side of the reservoir. The sandpipers flew high northeast at just gone 8 am.
There must have been even more of a fall of warblers, as there were lots singing and Blackcaps were literally everywhere. When I got to the sailing club there were two Sedge Warblers singing in the sparse hawthorn hedge around the perimeter fence. By the time I got to the wood I'd heard seven singing birds and the odd stuttering, scratching or churring calls of a couple of others. There were also a couple of Willow Warblers along the river and a Whitethroat singing from the scrub near to the wood. There were several more of both Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat up the valley too.
In the UCV there was a male Whinchat and two Yellow Wagtails feeding near the sheep along the flood alleviation bund, north of the EA 'no access' gate. Clive also confirmed the Little Grebes have three chicks at the Borrow Pit.
When I got back to the reservoir there was a male Wheatear in the cattle field, near to the hedge along the canal. There had been a a steady trickle of hirundines through all morning but now there were now c.20 House Martins forging over the cattle field and reservoir.
Colin had a similar number of House Martins in the evening and recorded our first Swift of the year.
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