I paid a late afternoon visit to the Reservoir and nature reserves at Farmoor today. A short shower as I arrived quickly cleared away and I enjoyed a couple of hours of pleasant sunshine which also provided four new birds for the year. I saw my first yellow wagtail as I crossed the causeway but apart from that it was relatively quiet.
However as I took the footpath down to the Pinkhill reserve and River Thames there was plenty of birdsong to be heard. I managed to find a garden warbler, which I missed last year so was quite pleased about that. A grasshopper warbler was reeling in some rough ground but was so well camouflaged I couldn't locate it at all, even though it sounded pretty close by. However, a common whitethroat was much more obliging, singing at the top of a tree in the hedgerow.
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