Corton, Benacre and Dunwich

On Saturday 12th April at Corton St. Bartholomew's Church, early morning, a male Blackcap was seen singing from the top of the Walnut tree. There was another male Blackcap singing in the Churchyard too. At the pond, I briefly saw the Water Rail scoot off again. Plus the Moorhen was seen and a pair of Mallards. I then drove to Benacre and walked down to the Broad, it was apparent there were around 40 Mute Swans dotted around the Broad. Straining my eyes and in heat haze I did finally make out the male Garganey really distant but in the north-west corner. I then drove to Dunwich and parking at the Roman road car park, I walked back along the road towards the Dunwich NT road and after 3/4 mile I turned right down a track (signed to Mount Pleasant farm), and walked a further 3/4 mile and tuned right to a gate where an assembled throng of birders and scopes we looked out over a heathy area with a large gorse bush to the left and bushes, first one male Ring Ouzel . Perched under the gorse bush perched on a branch. Then a second male Ring Ouzel hopped out and the a third and then a fourth, joined by 2 Song Thrushes, 4 male Ring Ouzels wwere on show. Finally, the female type Black Redstart popped out from the gorse bush. Later on, on the way back 2 Stone Curlews were seen the far side of a ploughed field.