A lot has happened birding wise since I last posted on this blog. Visits to Rainham, Lynford Arboretum and Santon Downham provided me with 9 lifers in the month of April. The highlight of which was a White Stork that I watched fly over the Serin mound on our London young birders trip (which I intended to blog but lost my whole writeup). So when, news broke out of a Bonaparte's Gull and 5 White Winged Black Terns at Abberton Reservoir, I couldn't resist doing some bank holiday birding. After a bit of persuasion, me and my Dad embarked on the hour-long journey to the reserve. On arrival at the car park, we were serenaded by displaying Skylark ; their song, a beautiful way to start the day off. After getting organised in the visitor centre and buying an obligatory pack of Maltesers, we headed out onto the reserve. The path to Gwen's hide provided the first birds of note, with an abundance of Swifts (my first of the year) helping to distract me from my pre-twitch nerves -...