Whooper Swans

Two early morning visits on Sat and Sunday, to Soil Hill and a walk over to Ned Hill track and back..The lower slopes again were busy with Lapwing and Curlew display calls , these have now been joined by drumming Snipe and in a week its gone from one pair of Meadow Pipit to 10 + pairs. Skylarks in full song , Reed Bunting , Wren and Blckbirds (8 males ). Its so good to hear all of them singing at last as some days its been very quiet. 500 + Starlings in the bottom fields 2 RAVEN flew over and 3 sightings of Sparrowhawk .Also had a face off with the Roe Deer male he was so mad at me barking and stomping his feet ,not happy... When I got to the top of Soil Hill i could make out Whoopers on Mixi res but its distant and I could hear Whoopers .?? When I got to Ned hill track I could hear Whoopers realy loud and picked up 14 heading into land at Ogden...There were 60 + on the res and they could be herd on Ned Hill track..On Sunday they all took off at the same time about 07.30 heading in all directions..At least 180 were counted....great to see and hear....hope for some migrants next weekend..........