Wednesday 1 May 2013

A fantastic day ,with  light winds and a balmy feel, due to work pressures it was just an hour on the patch early afternoon .
Warblers in the hedges were 3 Chiffchaff, 6 Whitethroats, 4 Blackcaps and best of all 2 Lesser Whitethroats , one in a new location and one chortling away behind the house early morning.
It must of been perfect for Buzzards as I recorded 13 today including a flock of 8 together soaring together , no doubt some were migrants passing over .
Still very few Swallows only 4 today, where are they ? . I wondered up to the top fields but there was only 1 male Wheatear today ,the rest having moved on.
The best of the rest were 3 Red Legged Partridge, female Kestrel ,3 Skylark