Siberian Chiff- Chaff at Leathes Ham

On Thursday 28th March, having failed to see the Siberian Chiff- Chaff the previous day very grey very gloomy day, following Andrew E's early tweet I raced down to Leather Ham and immediately heard the distinctive singing of the Siberian Chiff- Chaff , singing from the large tree just east of the tennis courts in Normanston Park, it then flew to the smaller tree on the east side of the path before flying to bushes by the Leathes Ham. It was greyish- brown with slight eye- stripe and whitish supercilia and black bill and legs. It was a scruffy individual with fluffed up and a few feathers out of place. There were also 3 Chiff- Chaffs around, making it harder to piuck up when it wasn't singing. We saw it very low down in bushes in the company of Peter N & Chris M. Later, together with OFB and Neville Loth we saw it in the bushes bordering the park where it showed despite twigs always being in the way. It then next started singing at 9.15 from trees by the Mere. Looking on Leathes Ham, male and female Pintail were the only interesting ducks seen on the Mere. A dash back in the afternoon, where I took the path east of feeding the wooden platformm, I joined Chris M and Maurice B, we saw the 2 excellent Garganey, a male and female swimming slowly left in and out of the reeds before we went around and joined by Andrew E saw them a little closer before they swam to the middle of the Mere and then over to the west side of the Broad.