The local farmers are making the most of the warm,dry spell to get in the grain, often working their combines well into the night. Inevitably birds and animals are being displaced as the appearance of the landscape rapidly alters. I counted three hares yesterday and two this morning and several deer are often out in the open. The stone curlews are flying around from one recently cropped field to another but ther is still no sign of any little bustards. I did find a moulted primary feather a few days back which indicates that at least one individual is still around.
An unusual sight yesterday was of a solitary lapwing in the same field as the stone curlews. Lapwings do not breed around here to my knowledge and the autumn migration is still some way off.
Near to the bio farm a superb male red backed shrike made a brief appearance, quails were calling yesterday and today and two black kites joined the buzzards who were making the most of the feeding oportunities that the cropped fields provide.
Other birds yesterday morning included nuthatch, yellowhammer, whitethroat, stonechat and melodious warbler.
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