Today was the third consecutive one when temperatures hit 30C although it's forecast to change from tomorrow. Spring continues to turn up its delights one of which was a short toed eagle at the Braconne yesterday. I watched it floating above me until it was seen off by a buzzard,
Long eared owls are not migrants but Spring could be the best place to locate them when they have young as they are early breeders. The appearance of a very fluffy fledgling accompanied by one of its parents was an unexpected occurrence near the eoliens and entirely the result of noisy disturbance by a troupe of over twenty quad bikes passing over the plains on Sunday morning. I saw the adult again yesterday in the same small stand of trees. This is the first time I've come across this elusive species since I found two roosting in my garden a few years back.
Speaking of the garden, a nightingale began to sing there this evening and a male hen harrier has passed very close to the boundary today and yesterday. The serins are still buzzing about and cuckoos call constantly.
Just after seeing the owls on Sunday I watched two stone curlews in an adjacent field and then three more about a kilometre away. I always scan the fields for the sight of a little bustard but it seem more and more to be a futile exercise nowadays. I'm tempted to investigate the large grain fields further north to discover if some are still hanging on there.
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