Sutton Bingham - Thu 5 May

Thirty minutes on site before work this morning and it was worth the visit. I only had time to check the reservoir from the dam, but as it happens this was a good call. Significantly fewer than the numbers seen last month there were just four Common Sandpipers present this morning and a single drake Mandarin added a splash of colour. The pick of the birds was a fly-through Hobby that whizzed through heading east at 6:43am, another good patch year tick!