Birding

Very early start on thursday surveying in rain at Brandon where I had a brood of Grey Wagtails, juvenile cuckoo and a Kingfisher.  By lunchtime the weather conditions improved, the sun came out and it was pleasant for a change.  Surveying at Fornham where I had two more juvenile Cuckoos.

In the evening I was ringing at Levington into the early hours of Friday, 0300 hrs in fact.  Not too many birds caught but we had a good variety of species; a few more Redshank were individually colour ringed, other species ringed included Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Golden Plover, Oystercatcher, Curlew Sandpiper and a most unlikely bird to have in the net was a Grey Heron.

Curlew Sandpiper still in summer plumage