The cool showery weather continues and I have little to report on the bird front but as I was passing Les Vielles Vaures a couple of days ago I stopped to see the state of the river. The Bandiat is still flowing strongly and partly in flood but there were two red backed shrikes, both males perched high in different trees. They could still be passage individuals but it seems likely that at least one of them is breeding there.
At the house nightingales and orioles are still very much in full voice and a serin is nesting in a very low tree in the garden, a noisy starling family has a nest n a wall of the house as do the kestrels and house sparrows make a lot of racket under the eaves but the reurning black redstarts do not appear to have bred on the property this year; perhaps the changes after last year's building work has deterred them. A pair of white wagtails is often on the lawn as are cirl buntings so I assume they are nesting nearby.
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