This has got to have been the quietest Aug/Sept so far this year with birds reluctant to move other than a few reports of Raptors and Waders.
A scattering of Meadow Pipits went over >S early morn but this soon dried up leaving ,once again , empty skies.
A quick Dailies dash at lunchtime found nothing moving across the valley but birds were lively at the top of the fields in the old allotments with 6 Collared Doves, 2 Jays and several Robins and Wrens. Unfortunately this plot of land has recently been sold for a house to be built on.
Got my hat trick this evening at missing a Sparrowhawk photo opportunity when Id been volunteered to was the windows and didnt realize till too late that the Sparrowhawk had been above me on the TV aerial.
Then to make matters worse Denise sent me this stonking photo of the Sparrowhawk in her garden, unfortunately ,as she put it, Goldfinch was on the menu. Thanks for that Denise.
Dashed out into the carpark this p.m. after a grapevine message from AC of 2 Bar Tailed Godwits over Northowram heading >N but once again dipped although with going out I got a Heron very high and >N
BS