Another of those hot ones with just a light E>3 with wall to wall blue skies.
Once again the skies were bright blue above but very hazy and milky to the west and east.
Old Guy Road is now holding around 9 Skylark but still no sign of Wheatear on the hot spot cricket pitch. The Roper Lane plantation had around 3 Willow Warblers but tending to stay low in the east wind.
Low lane/ Pit Lane just produced the usual Lapwings but sky watching was a little better with, at one point, 4 distant Buzzards and 2 Sparrowhawks in the air together but very high and distant over and beyond Thornton soaring up in the heat haze.
The daughter rang me today after they walked down to Horton Country Park, Horton Bank Top, where the granddaughters like to see the wildfowl and swans. The female swan was sitting eggs but a dog walker told them the male Mute Swan had been killed last night by a group of youths. I got in touch with Judy Hogg, Swan rescue, who had been alerted this morning with the police who say they have some evidence. She took the Swan to the vets to find cause of death and says she is now worried that the female will not be able to cope on her own especially sitting eggs and due to the fact she cannot fly as one of her wings was badly damaged recently when she was attacked with a dog.
Judy is going to keep an eye on her and see how it goes.
This country park, a hovel for all the druggies and scum of the earth, needs filling in and shutting down and hopefully if they find who did it they will be injected with a double dose of Corvid 19.
Old Guy Rd/ Roper Lane
9 Skylark
3 Willow Warbler
+ usual sp.
Low Lane
4 Buzzard
2 Sparrowhawk
BS