The dull cool weather continues but I still took a ride around the plains this morning. I managed to relocate the stone curlew, in fact a pair of them, in a different ploughed field. As usual, both were crouched motionless close to the ground.
Hoopoes have been calling for a few days now but the the first one that I've seen this year was at Artenac.
Just one male wheatear was showing on the plains and a male hen harrier was cruising over the rape fields, probably the same individual which I saw from the house yesterday.
The rape fields are a popular location for corn buntings and several were singing away this morning.
There must have been a major arrival of blackcaps in the night as their numbers were in the dozens including one party of at least twenty which was involed in a squabble in a short stretch of hedge.
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