August is always a quiet month and the most visible activity seems to be hundreds of swallows feeding over the harvested fields.
A few orioles are still singing/calling but turtle doves seem to have gone quiet over the last few days.
I saw four stone curlews on the plains this morning so it seems as though they bred successfully. Another one or perhaps two were calling from a few hundred yards away.
Things are pretty quiet on the raptor front but a male montague's harrier was hunting on the plains yesterday. And I came across a recently killed and plucked wood pigeon on the GR36 yesterday. It's carcass was headless and surrounded by a snowstorm of white feathers suggesting a peregrine kill but perhaps a goshawk or even a sparrowhawk ould have been responsible.
The pond at La Poterie is almost dry but a few young moorhen are hanging on in there. One of the commune's mallards is sitting on eggs outside our front door. I hope some rain arrives before the ducklings do.
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