The light was good enough this morning to try using my 1.4x converter. I don't use it too often because AF with the pins taped with my 100-400mm IS rarely pays off but this morning I was glad I took it along. These birds are a joy to watch and photograph. 
A pair of Grey Wagtail have nested this year in one of the doors at Willington Lock resulting in frantic parents being disturbed from the nest everytime a boat opens or closes the lock. Crazy birds but they seem to be doing OK so far and theres no shortage of food. 
This cracking bird spending a fruitless second spring on territory at Welney. I didn't manage to visit last year but the little beauty showed very nicely yesterday morning once the sun had decided to come out. If only a female would drop in..........
Good to see Grasshopper Warblers in the village this spring following two or three years where they had seemed to have vanished. A full selection of warblers this morning with the exception of Lesser Whitethroat which doesn't seem to have arrived yet. The local male Cuckoo has also returned - wonder if he's as glad to see me as I am to see him ?
I don't like getting too close to these beasts despite finding them fascinating. Fortunately the 400mm and a heavy crop gave me safe range and didn't bring the goose-bumps out too much! 
On the 16th March I recorded my first Avocet at Willington, this morning I found two there. Two had been seen earlier in the morning at the Brick Pits so it seems they had relocated to here. Poor shots but good birds for Willington. 
The closest we have been to the moon in the past 19 years apparently and supposedly looking 
Having eluded hundreds of birders on Tuesday, the Oriental Turtle Dove duly obliged this morning in the dull, wet garden of number 41. Chipping Norton, Oxon.
I count the flock of naturalised Barnacle Geese at Willington every month and can't say I've seen this one before. 
Digi-snap of one of the four Scaup from a fleeting visit to Stewartby lake today. A good selection of local birds seen with Bittern and Red-throated Diver being the best of the bunch.
