Barking's Buzzing !!

Walked to the patch this morning arriving at 06:45 there were plenty of more arrivals in the shape of Common Whitethroats in abundance and Chiffchaff and Blackcap all over.

On the foreshore a single Bar-tailed godwit alongside three Curlew were first up and a Tern roosting on the mud was my first Arctic of the year.

Several Yellow Wagtails over were new as was a stunning male Whinchat.

Though highlight of the morning was a reeling Grasshopper Warbler and was only my second for the patch and the first spring record for me.