Spent a couple of hours from 06.30 on the Meadow. An arrival of warblers was very evident, the best being a Grasshopper Warbler which gave a short reel typical of spring migrants and showed briefly in a low tangle. Otherwise 11 Willow Warblers; 16 Chiffchaffs; 4 Whitethroats which were flushed from a marshy area of tussocks then retreated to their usual Hawthorn hedge haunt, 11 Swallows through north. 8 Common terns flew north.
On the now drying flash 8 Yellow and 1 male Blue-headed Wagtails were quickly put up by canine enthusiast. 4 Wheatears were on the Golf Course and though distant had the dusky large look of leucorhoa.
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| Willow Warbler - this one had very cold plumage tones and dark legs,
the song and call were typical - possibly of the colour type eversmanni and
of the race acredula
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