A trip out with DH (in shorts no less)....very warm....the peculiar weather carries on....
Found 7 Nightingales occasionally singing....a couple of Garden Warblers, 3 Willow Warblers and 3 Lesser Whitethroat....
No Skylark were singing at North Field....with DH we tried to figure out what the farmer had tried to achieve with this cutting last week or so ago but couldn't really find any conclusions other than perhaps he was contracted to do it....whatever....he has destroyed Skylark nests in the process...
DH found a Hobby sitting in a tree near Middle Pit....which was excellent....then after doing the circuit of West Pit we first spotted 2....then 3 Hobbys hunting over the wooded area between Middle and West Pit....they were catching smaller insects as it was talon to mouth and hunting again...
No Lapwing west of West Pit....I don't think they have been resident long enough to have fledged chicks though I am aware other Lapwings at various sites have chicks already...hopefully they were just on an awayday somewhere feeding and will be back....it unlikely they will succeed here though....
At the northern edge of West Pit I located a Cuckoo which then proceeded to give really good fly-by views at the western end of Middle Pit...
2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on Island Pit....
As we reached the quarry we found a single Hobby....it was hunting over the open area and whirled round and round not too far over our heads giving some of the best views ive ever had....
Other raptors were Buzzard and Kestrel....
And...
....no...not a poo in a bag....as usually found on country walks because dog owners are thick...but the even thicker dimwit this time....a tin in a bag and tied to the gate....somehow they imagine it will get itself to a recycling box and a bin.....how totally moronic...
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