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The (utterly fabulous) spoonbill is still present on the north brooks, giving great views from Nettley's hide and remains top of the list for most visitors. Little ringed plovers still around too, though generally harder to find! Lots of recently fledged birds aorund the trail - great, blue and coal...

Two very splendid-looking drake garganey on the north brooks today togther with gadwall, tufted duck, shelduck, teal, and shoveler, plus a small group of passage waders - 8 ringed plover and 2 dunlin. Three or four hobbies over the south brooks plus nightingales, garden warblers, whitethroats, blackcaps...

An osprey was over the north brooks at midday yesterday, appearing at precisely the same time as a guided walk I was leading arrived at the hanger viewpiont. Very convenient. It circled a few times, gained height and headed off to the north. Jon and Hans (who found the osprey), then topped that by finding...

Hundreds of swifts overhead/passing through all day yesterday. This morning at 08.00, masses of swallows and house martins hawking over the flood (probably 1000 over the whole site) and still many swifts. Nightingales and song thrushes in good voice around the trail, just-fledged rooks in the tree tops...

Hobbies - at least 2, possibly more, were putting on a fantastic show hunting dragonflies over the north brooks yesterday (best seen from Nettley's hide or Jupp's view). A marsh harrier was also seen hunting the brooks. Spotted flycatchers can be found nr Jupp's view and on the edge of the...

Last week's wryneck and spoonbills were topped by an all too brief gull-billed tern that was seen by a couple of birders on sunday morning for a few minutes before it headed north. This morning saw the run of good birds continuing as a Temminck's stint was on the pool in front of west mead hide...