Sadly it's out last day today. We did a morning session around the village HERE, new trip ticks included Rook, Honey Buzzard and Black Kite.
I spent the rest of the day doing a bit of work on the plot, cutting back the trees to get the caravan in and doing some final work on the pond.
Final trip report HERE. 131 species in 6 days staying locally is not too bad but migration has been pretty slow in the hot, dry and north east wind conditions. We've added three new species to the local Ebird hotpsot HERE- Capsian Tern, Middle Spotted Woodpecker and Wood Warbler.
Will post seperately on the Leps. Site list now on 409 (awaiting verification) HERE.
Adult Red-breasted Flycatcher- about 30 or so of these around the village and we had six around the pond this morning
There's also 30-35 Red-backed Shrikes around showing a lot of variation. This was the palest bird we had
A single kettle of raptors were thermalling over the village including 2 dark juv Honey Buzzard (above and below), Common Buzzard (below that), Black Kite (keep going down) and an Osprey with a few Levants, a couple of Hobby, two Marsh Harrier and a Red-footed Falcon. Very nice indeed!
Had this distinctive moth on the edge of the village- a lifer whatever it is
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