Editing Strumpshaw Fen RSPB reserve (section)

===Spring===
* Courting pairs of marsh harriers  perform  'sky-dancing' displays. 
* Songs of spring migrant birds including reed and [[sedge warbler]]s, [[common cuckoo|cuckoo]]s, [[common grasshopper warbler|grasshopper warbler]]s and white throats. 
* [[Barn swallow|Swallow]]s and [[common swift|swift]]s dart across the pools
* Great crested grebes and other waterfowl prepare their nests. 
* [[Lesser spotted woodpecker|Lesser spotted]] and [[great spotted woodpecker]]s easily heard drumming in the woodland.
* Booming [[great bittern|bitterns]] can be heard from across the reserve, in 2017, there were up to 3 booming male bitterns on the reserve