A late walk around the patch today , and to be honest I was thinking how poor this spring had been , and how to keep writng the same thing over and over again . In the end I managed to find three new species for the patch list.
just 2 Blackcap were singing (it was late afternoon ), but for the first time this year I managed to get into double figures with Swallows with 10 plus over/through .I got nice close up views of Stock Dove (4), they really are fantastic.
A Raven was mobbing a Buzzard (5 today), but no sign of the Kestrel today. Walking across the fields turned up 5 Skylark and 3 Whitethroat in the hedges.A nice suprise was a calling Curlew close by, did not see though .There was a small flock of Gulls on ploughed fields with 25 Lesser Black Backed and 1 Herring Gull present.
It was then things picked up with 4 Chiffchaff and then a male and female Wheatear on the top fields(3 weeks later than last year). A brief sound alerted me to a Lesser Whitethroat in the hedgerows . So by this time I was feeling pretty pleased with myself having added 2 new species to the patch list so as I was almost home  a bird darted from some hawthorns , a quick glance through the bino"s and there was a cracking male Redstart .
So it turned out to be a cracking walk.
The patch list moves to 73