Wednesday was just a fantastic to be out , and with news of a HOOPOE just up the road and me being on holiday I was out and ready to add the above to the patch list, needless to say that did not happen !
In the hedges were 4 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat, Willow Warbler and a nice female Bullfinch .
Swallows were more numerous than of late with 17 plus around but only 2 House Martin .Raptors were both male and female Kestrel and 3 Buzzards soaring overhead. The year showed the first sign of turning with the sighting of a flock of 10 plus Long Tailed Tits including a number of juvenile  birds .Other odds and sods were a Green Woodpecker, 4 Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail (first for quite awhile),7 plus Stock Dove