It's been a couple of weeks since my last posting, partly because of the appalling weather which has not been conducive to doing much outdoors but also perhaps because the main Spring migration tends to fizzle out by mid May.
There are always the late arrivals to look out for though and the red backed shrike is one of them. The male is surely one of our most elegant birds and with the intention of seeking one out I detoured from a trip to La Rochefoucauld to the hedges around the bio farm near La Tâche where they have bred in recent years. Sure enough, one was there and typically perched on the top of a bush to let me watch him for a few minutes.
From a wheat field nearby at least three quail were calling and by the eoliens two harriers were hunting; the male was definitely a hen harrier but the female could have been a montague's.
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