Tonight along the Ridge
18:00 >19:30Warm sun, 20c at start.
A Common Redstart yet again along the Ridge at Manor Farm this evening, again a female and for a time in exactly the same bush as last weekends bird, coincidence? This however looked a much smarter clean cut individual but could be Paul M and Rob N's 'second' bird. (See Saturday below) If so now on site for the sixth day.
Also as I was leaving as darkness fell a rather scruffy female Whinchat on the barbed wire fence running south to north down the hill from the farm building.
A lone Green Sandpiper and a pair of Common Terns getting what for from a pack of Jackdaws and a Little Egret over were the only other real birds of interest. Compared with recent days there has also been quite an influx of Lesser Black Backed Gulls on site probably now making up around 40% of the hundred or so gulls on site. Three Lapwing also put in an appearance as did a loud Green Woodpecker, maybe common birds but looking all the better in the evening sun.
And on the butterfly front a single Common Blue and a couple of Small Whites were seen along the approach road while an odd dragonfly still darted about. Plenty of life in this summer yet yet a combine harvester cutting the wheat to the far east of the site shows that a change is not that far off.
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