Despite a few showers yesterday the warm weather has resulted in the water levels in the flooded fields to continue to fall. Nevertheless Fougère hosted a great white egret today along with a few hundred lapwing, two ruff, a redshank about a hundred black headed gulls and the injured white stork mentioned in previous posts. There was no sign of yesterday's golden plovers though. I had no time to check out the Bandiat.
The garden held a few species too; a fine male black redstart, a chiffchaff, a firecrest,a cirl bunting and a great spotted woodpecker all made appearances. About 70 cranes flew over in the early afternoon. The pair of kestrels which usually nest on the gable wall of the house seem already to have taken up residence.
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