Since the pallas warbler surprise the birding has been quite interesting; a hawfinch and a lesser spotted woodpecker were present at Valence yesterday and a flock of 100 cranes flew high over La Poterie. A trip over the Lairiere plains this morning revealed a single lapwing, no less than five herons following a plough and a flock of over 50 golden plover feeding in the same field. Flocks of skylarks and chaffinches contained many hundreds and a single flock of linnets consisted of around 400 birds.
One lapwing! I've got hundreds here! Can't go out of the front door without tripping over lapwings!Not much else except flocks of curlew feeding on the river meadows.Nice picture of a little grebe on my Facebook page though.Oh sorry, you don't do Facebook, I'll send it you though. Irv
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