Blackcap: On a stormy
day at Martin Mere the rain did its best to keep the birds under
cover and me tucked up in a nice dry hide, but rain cant keep me from
birding. Along the path passed the Swan Link Hide there where a few
Blackcap singing and showing well.
Wood Warbler: While
walking around in the rain trying to find the Blackcaps I came across
a Wood Warbler singing and calling before it decided it had enough of
the weather and flew down among the Hawthorn bushes.
Shoveler: I started
the morning at the back of the reserve on the Reed Bed Walk, I had
some good views of a male Marsh Harrier, two Red Legged Partridge,
Pochard and a few Shoveler Ducks which where very flighty to begin
with but after a while they returned and where showing well.
No sign of the Crested Pochard or Med Gulls.