Yesterday gave welcome relief from all the recent (and present) rain. The skies was blue, the light intense and large flocks of skylarks were wheeling around the Lairiere plains like so many waders. A few meadow pipits and chaffinches were using the same habitat and dozens of white wagtails were on any recently ploughed field but a bright male hen harrier stole the show as he elegantly quartered the field edges.
It's curious how few robins are around in Charente; an individual frequents our house in La Tache but the density of this species in England during my recent sojourn there seemed to be something like one every hundred yards or so and their song and ticking call was everywhere.
My friends tell me that some cranes were seen still migrating only a week or so ago.
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