Spent a few hours around Marbury in cloudy conditions with a chill NE wind, hardly ideal birding weather. The highlight was watching the lesser spotted woodpeckers at the nest - changing over so presumably now on eggs. Along the fishermans footpath it was a pleasure to watch 5 shelducks in courtship at close range, lots of posturing and fighting away the unattached male bird. A woodpecker drumming across the Mere in the heronry wood sounded like a lesser spot - is there another pair? There were large numbers of sand martins over the Mere, with a handful of swallows and house martins. 3 common sandpipers were also present and my first reed warblers of the year singing from the Coward reedbed, but otherwise new migrants hard to find. Still good to be out, even if it doesn't feel too spring like.
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