In search of more warblers
Booted Warbler provides great excitement! An early morning visit to a local marsh produced River Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Great Reed Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Savi's Warbler, and Sedge Warbler - not a bad list! Citrine Wagtails seemed to be all over the marsh, including some stunning males. Rather more unexpectedly, were great views of Lesser-spotted Woodpeckers which were obviously feeding young near by, as they repeatedly visited a clump of willows to collect food before flying off, presumably to feed their young.On to another marsh - hear the undoubted highlight was a pair of Lesser-spotted Eagles, perched in the poplar trees. From here we visited an area of parkland, where after a rather frustrating search, we eventually tracked down a Middle-spotted Woodpecker. The area also held several singing Icterine Warblers, which were much more obliging than the woodpecker.A lengthy drive had us at an area of open grassland with scattered low scrub close to the Russian border. A high wind did nothing for our prospects of finding our target bird here: Booted Warbler. We scanned and scanned seeing a flew wind-blown Whinchats but little else. Suddenly Mika was waving and pointing excitedly. He had the bird! We dashed over to join him and were amazed and delighted to see a Booted Warbler sitting up in full view and singing, an incredibly piece of luck given the conditions.Bird species total: 2251Posted 8pm, 2nd June, Still somewhere in Estonia