Went yesterday,
Sunny and warm to start
overcast later
hoping for hobbies and dartfords - but no show
a thin count - 17 species
highlights
a raven, flying over heath and calling
several redstarts in the woodland edges
stonechats (including a very shy juvenile) and linnets in the heather and bracken
pair of willow warblers
Called in at Lower Test Marshes on the way back
water level of scrape worrying low
six green...

Having started work at what could be described as the best part of the season when the adults are busy nest building and the eggs are laid and then the young ones appearing.
Due to work, I was missing out on most of this. And the great weather we having was making the shooting conditions even better.

I quit my job on Thursday due tot he fact that paying for expenses, then waiting 6 weeks before getting paid was pretty annoying. Driving the vehicle they proveide with no road...

Going to sell my house and live on Eccup reseviour bird watching for the rest of my life...
Sat on the waters edge with a coffee watching the birds,the water a deep blue,sun shining,lined by trees swaying in the wind,life can be good..I wanted to bottle it up and give it to sad people...

Enough of that back to the challange..
Of the long road towards were the House Martins are there was Hares in the corn fields,alot of young Tree Sparrows and the sky was full of Swifts.At...