Bank holiday Monday and I had to work so I did not get out until lunchtime, a hot cloudless day greeted me and although Idid not cover the entire patch ,there were some cracking birds around today. Number 75 for the patch came in the form of a cracking male Whinchat in the same hedgerow as last year .
Warblers were represented by 6 Blackcap, 6 Whitethroat, 4 Chiffchaff and still 2 Lesser Whitethroat, although Willow Warblers seem to have moved on .
A fine male Yellow Wagtail flew over calling and there were up too 5 Buzzards around. At least a few House Martins were over the village , stll only 3 though , 4 Swallow went over.
There were 2 male Wheatears both away from the usual place one in the horse paddocks and one in a hedgerow.
The best of the rest were 3 Skylark, 2 Stock Dove and a Red Legged Partridge .
The patch list is now 75