Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos). This most celebrated of all song-birds is 6.5 inches long and looks like a big robin from behind, though it has brighter brown upperparts and a conspicuously reddish tail. The sexes are alike.

map Little Auk Titchwell RSPB 2/2/05. Dusky Warbler still at Kessingland Suffolk 3/02/05. Lesser Yellowlegs still at Stiffkey North Norfolk Coast 4th feb 05.Foraging marsh harrier (female) Cley 4/2/05. King Eider Loch Ryan (Stranrear) Dumfries and Galloway 5th Feb 05. Sat. 05 Feb 05:- Bean Goose,White-front and Pinkies near Creswell (N'lnd) on fields. Ferruginous Duck Elstow Clay pits Bedordshire.Spoonbill Isley Marsh Yelland Devon 7th January 05. Black-necked Grebe Portland Harbour Dorset 9th February 05. Smew at Bray Gravel Pits Berkshire 10th Feb 05. Great Grey Shrike Clumber Park Nottingham 11th Feb 05. 30 Long tailed duck offshore at Titchwell RSPB reserve 12th February 2005.Great Northern Diver still at Culverthorpe Lake Lincolnshire 13th Feb 05. 20 Waxwing Chester -le-street County Durham 13/02/05. 3 Smew and Bittern Tophill Low Nature reserve Yorkshire. 13/02/05. Slavonian Grebe and Great crested grebe Loch Ryan Stranrear (Dumfries & Galloway) 16th Feb 2005.Ring Tailed Harrier Titchwell Norfolk 17th Feb 05. 3 Snow Bunting Holkham Beach Norfolk 18th Feb 05.Caspian Gull Rossaveal, Rogerstown County Galway Ireland 18th February 05. Black Throated Diver off sea viewed from Whitburn bird observatory South Tyneside 22/02/05. Snowy Owl  Lough Foyle, County Londonderry Northern Ireland 21st Feb 05.  White-tailed Eagle Oxcombe, Lincolnshire 22/02/05. Great Northern Diver, Leach's petrel & Iceland Gull South Gare Redcar Cleveland 23rd Feb 05., Little Bunting Caunsall Worcestershire 23/02/05.Ferruginous Duck Abberton reservoir Essex 26th Feb 05. Spoonbill Lodmor RSPB reserve Weymouth Dorset 26/02/05. Green-winged Teal Shibdon Pond Blaydon Tyne & Wear 27th Feb 05. Lapland Bunting West Runton Norfolk 27/02/05.Grey phalarope still at Filey brigg Nth Yorks 28th Feb 05.

  Best areas to see and hear Nightingales. Try the minor road from Eastbridge to the RSPB Minsmere reserve (Suffolk UK) Early in the morning. Summer