June is here and the sun has finally decided to come out so it was a case of on the bike to see what was around locally.
A three hour tour turned up 50 species ncluding a pair of stone curlews on the plains in a different field from the one I have seen a pair in earlier; perhaps there are two pairs. raptors were abundant, particularly harriers and I saw at least six montagues and several hen harriers including two males which were sat close to each other on the ground, quietly preening, while just a single black kite was hunting over the fields. The rest of the fifty included spotted flycatcher, short-toed tree creeper, tree pipit, crested lark, melodious warbler, golden oriole, hoopoe, cuckoo, yellowhammer and the usual suspects---but not goldfinch, swift, house martin, dunnock or black redstart!
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