It's early August and despite its being pleasantly warm, this must be the coolest Charente summer for a long time. Today was clear blue skies and a high in the upper 20's but clouds and showers are forecast for the next few days. My lawn is still very green, very different to the parched straw look of virtually every August that I can recall.
I had a good bird day in the garden last week though, with 26 species heard or seen while I took my breakfast on the terrace. These included two male golden orioles, a hoopoe, a tree pipit and both green and great spotted woodpeckers.
I did create anther blog some time back called 'Breakfast Birds' although I have never written any posts. Perhaps I'll reactivate it; the basic idea was to encourage others, wherever they live, to record what birds they see or hear while they are breakfasting.
Away from the garden things have quietened down as one would expect at the height of summer. I went for a bike ride today without my binoculars so sure was I that little would turn up. I was right more or less although I did see my first male common redstart for a few weeks.
Stone curlews were still calling on the plains last week and black kites were scavenging the recently harvested or ploughed fields.
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