Avocet at the scrape.......

16 May - A quick stop at pit 74 gave good views of the Avocet on the scrape, also a male Ruff just developing the neck feathering. Plenty of Common Terns around but I couldn't see any definite Arctics. Cuckoo and Nightingale heard again. Also 2 Whimbrel on the scrape. My 4th Avocet record at CWP ( 2 self-found) not the great local rarity it once was, probably because of the breeding population now established at Slimbridge.