This will be the last blog for a couple of weeks as we are off to the UK. The clear nights are becoming coolish---only 5C at 8am today--- but the days are beautifully clear and very warm in the sunshine. A flock of about 20 lapwings were on the plains and hopefully evading the hunters whose gunfire I could hear earlier. It's such a pity that this beautiful species is still classed as chasse in Charente.
Speaking of chasse, two red legged partridge were waddling down the road in front of the car and we had virtually to shoo them away, hardly difficult targets!
Large numbers of linnets were flocking on the recently harrowed fields; small flocks of skylark were everywhere and blackbirds were very common.
A welcome sight in the garden was a dunnock, my second in just a few days!
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