A couple of minutes of the Holme Fen soundscape at daybreak this morning. The bleats and grunts are from cormorants. They were already sitting on nests in the islands to the left and right of the picture.
The sounds of greylag geese pass over at one point, and after about a minute a kingfisher flies by with its characteristic high piping “Tzee”. You can hear softer calls between it and its mate for most of the rest of the clip.
Robins and great tits are singing in the background and there’s also a moorhen and some crows. Elsewhere I heard green woodpecker, mistle and song thrushes, and possibly a blackbird (though they don’t seem to have properly fired up so far this year).
Grey herons don’t appear to be nesting yet, but a roost of around a dozen little egrets was sitting in the branches of a tree at the westerly edge of the lake.
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