A visit to Felbrigg Lake today revealed that the Reed Warbler was still in the reedbed and had now been joined by a Sedge Warbler too.
I then noticed a bird fly up onto an adjacent fence and when getting it in my bins was very pleased to see it was a cracking male Whinchat. It then flew across the reedbed over to the north side of the lake where it was joined by a second and they were watched feeding from the fence and from trees in the reedbed itself.
Other birds of note included a Wheatear around the gorse clump, a drake Manadarin along with a third Coot now on the lake, a Common Sandpiper flew round calling before flying off high as it started to drizzle and a Barn Owl was hunting the water meadow.
