We went to the river chelmer on Sunday night and canoed on the Monday. At night when in our tents we would hear the tawny owl calling and the bats screeching call. Dawn corus started at around 5:00am. We could hear almost all of the garden birds including the green woodpecker. Then something surprising started to call it was the cookoo. The first we have hear this year!
We started conoeing at 10:00am seeing a common tern whizzing up and down the river and often splashing down to catch a fish. 15 swallows flew over head and we could hear another cookoo calling. We left the main river and entered the black water which was very hard to paddle down due to the wave splashing over the boat. 7 oystercatchers could be seen along with a hovering kestrel. As the tide was going out it became harder to paddle. Thankfully a king man in a motor boat towed us back to the mooring area at hieghbridge basin. We all very hungry as we had not eaten since breakfast. It was very enjoyable trip but if we had to been towed then we would have run around!
Young birders
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