A bright start with blue skies and sunshine quickly to be replaced with grey sky and drizzle by mid morning
becoming, as usual, heavy rain over my lunch time. Little improvement throughout the rest of the day with occasional rain and drizzle showers.
A slight Meadow Pipit movement this morning with a scattering of Mipits >W early on in front of the rain but the bird of the day being a House Martin over the garage spotted by NK as he paid me a visit this morning.
This is a rare sighting this year with House Martins being near non existent in Queensbury around their usual nesting sites.
Three Pied Wagtails were feeding on the new cut grass in Foxhill Park but gulls were noticable by their absence.
A Sparrowhawk skimmed overhead, which was probably the juv spotted by NK last week, whilst 4 Lapwings headed >E very high.
Looks like DJS has got the monopoly on the late Swift so far with one on the 22nd
BS