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| Gadwall at Bow Creek, 17/3/2012 |
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| Long-tailed Tit nest at Bow Creek Ecology Park, 17/3/2012 |
A short burst of onomatopoeic song delivered from an often overlooked area of unpromising scrub by the blue bridge and Chiffchaff is on the yearlist at last; no overwintering birds could be found this year so it is almost certainly a migrant, the weather was filthy but this affirmation that spring is finally here reduced the rain to a minor inconvenience, things are as they should be and that's all that matters. I found another Long-tailed Tit nest, this time in the ecology park. I tarried long enough to take the picture above and then left the birds in peace, I only hope that Lea Valley Regional Park will do the same; I notice a lot of severe pruning has taken place this month and it is simply the wrong time of the year to be doing it; the other nest at the basin may have been deserted as the bramble where it is located has had a very severe haircut. The wader roost held a single Redshank but there are still three Common Sandpipers in the area, the tide was not high enough to cover all their feeding areas so only one of them was actually in the roost. Common Teal numbers still manage to break the ton with 121 counted today, I couldn't find the female Pintail but I did find an unusually flighty male Gadwall at Bow Creek; other wildfowl included six Shelduck and 31 Tufted Duck. Plenty of passerines are singing now among them a Chaffinch, not a species that has ever been proven to breed at the lower Lea.
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