Nightingale : 'Mission accomplished'.........

I've been promising myself to re-visit Cotswold Water Park for the last few years in the hope of photographing Nightingale, although not in the numbers that existed previously due to habitat destruction by greedy developers building holiday homes for the rich they still exist in small numbers in sporadic locations.
So it was that myself and Kevin Hughes met up in Cardiff at 6.00am this morning and by 7.30am we were listening to our first Nightingale in scrub near Pit 43, they are notoriously difficult to see and after about an hour one gave itself up and perched out in the open and I managed a quick series of shots that I was really pleased with...……

We heard and saw three different birds in territories close to each other and at one point had a bird singing no further that 3m away from us in scrub, could we get a close view, no chance !!

We visited a few other pits and picked up a very distant Great White Egret and three Common Terns,there were lots of other warblers including my first Sedge and Garden of the year together with Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps and Willow Warblers.

A very enjoyable morning and with 'mission accomplished' we called it a day and headed for home early afternoon.