I heard my first cuckoo for about a week as they seemed to have stopped calling but Irv tells me this isn't so in Charente Maritime. A singing woodlark near La Tache was the first I had heard for some time.
Near home, I watched a family of nuthatches. In fact quite a few birds seemed to be out in family groups today.
Lunch at La Chapelle wasn't meant to be a birding occasion but it surprisingly produced 3 new species for the year. A pair of spotted flycatchers were feeding by the Charente river, a kingfisher appeared on a few occasions and I had a brief view of a lesser spotted woodpecker.
In all, 45 species were recorded today---but no robin or dunnock!
I am sure if I could identify all I saw the numbers would be quite high but..... I was excited though yesterday by seeing a Little Owl when went we went for bread early in the morning. Diane
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