Nightjar recording

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The amazing Giant Viper's Bugloss ( Echium pininana ).

At the end of the dead end road leading form Potter Heigham to the marshes.




Hickling Broad

Savi's Warbler singing and seen but not recorded.

Sedge Warbler
nearby

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Potter Heigham Marshes

Spoondbill
Black Winged Stilt
Temminck's Stint
Garganey







Spoonbill ( Platalea leucorodia )







Ribwort Plantain ( Plantago lanceolata )



Prickly Sowthistle ( Sonchus asper )









Four Spotted Chaser ( Libellula quadrimaculata )














Swallowtail Butterfly ( Papilio machaon )



Reed Bunting ( Emberiza schoeniclus )

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Common Mouse-ear ( Cerastium fontanum )

Garden Warblers singing



Also

Blackcap
and
Robin

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Whooper Swan ( Cygnus cygnus )



At least a hundred Black Terns

20 or so Little Gulls

A pair of Red Necked Grebes

Marsh Harrier




Thrush Nightingale









Whitethoat

Lesser Whitethroat

Penduline Tit

Whinchat





and

Common Rosefinch

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A boardwalk through this area takes you through the variety of habitats. Mire - Dry wood - Wet mire with pools.

A pair of Goosander were basking in the glow of the evening sunshine.





Estonia hay meadow management.

Surprising few birds as I believe this is designed to increase biodiversity.









White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia )







Common Crane ( Grus grus )











Hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus )



Thrush Nigthingale singing










Hazel Grouse nibbling the new shoots on the Silver Birch.

Great Grey Owl

White Backed Woodpecker











Wood Warbler singing.







Marsh Marigold ( Caltha palustris )





Buttercup Anemone ( Anemone ranunculoides )

















Green Hairstreak ( Callophrys rubi )




An Icterine Warbler singing from high in these trees.







Pied Flycatcher & Spotted Flycatcher also present.
















White Wagtail ( Motacilla alba )


on the road
to
Tartu



White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia )








Common Crane ( Grus grus )

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In a glade in the woodlands at the northern end of Leidissoo

Tree Pipit



and

Yellow Hammer

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Dawn light on the trees.






Soundscape from the reedbed.




Soundscape from the woodland edge a few hundred yards from the reeds.











A Cormorant colony just by the watchtower. ( Phalacracorax carbo )





A very changeable morning. From snowflurries to sunshine.

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Beautiful old Crack Willows









Celery-leaved Buttercup ( Ranunculus sceleratus )



Reed Warbler - Acrocephalus scirpaceus, one of the many singing this morning.



Sedge Warbler



Cetti's Warbler
Which can be heard calling in the reedbed Dawn Chorus recording below.

Blackcap



Dawn Chorus in woodland at Stodmarsh



Dawn Chorus in the reedbed at Stodmarsh



Hobby and Marsh Harrier

On the lane down towards Stodmarsh are these tremendous woodlands full of Bluebells

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Dunnock - Prunella modularis



Whitethroat - Sylvia communis

A number of Nightingale singing but not seen.









and
a
Cuckoo
plus
Common Sandpiper

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