Very early start at Corton

On Friday 18 April I had a very early start parking in Corton Churchyard, down to Broadland Sands caravan park and a Great-spotted Woodpecker flew over the road. A Whitethroat (my first of the year) was singing and showed briefly by weeds by the now infamous Pallid spoil heap. So I walked up to the Corton MOD fields and I was pleased to see 2 summer plumaged Golden Plovers still in the fields. I walked back to the Church and then by the entrance track to Corton Old Sewage Works, first a female Blackcap showed her lovely chestnut cap by the trees, then a male Blackcap was seen and was quite a showy indivdual constantly singing and posed well for the camera in nice light too. The Moorhen was at the pond and a Song Thrush at the back ditch. On the fields just south of the OSW, 5 Linnet seen and a pair of Linnets were in the compound and 1 male bird was nicely perched up too.