No rain forecast so decided to take a walk to Lollingdon,
skirting Aston Tirrold and back through the Lees.
Fourteen Chiffchaff
noted including one in the garden but no other warblers, a Kingfisher by the brook near the Bullshole, around a dozen Yellowhammer and seven Reed Bunting seen.
The Wheatear still
on the hill but little else, a flock of sixty plus Meadow Pipit near the Lees and around eighty noted altogether.
A Whinchat by the
long ditch near the Lees but was flushed by a walker and flew off towards
Aston, two Goldcrest also seen near
the ditch.
Great-spotted
Woodpecker and Green Woodpecker
seen (one of the former in the garden)
and a Coal Tit in the Churchyard and
a least two Common Gull flew towards
Cholsey Hill.
Both Migrant Hawker
and Common Darter seen with the
latter very numerous and seen egg laying in a flooded field.
Approximately one hundred Red Admiral seen today, every piece of Ivy had at least several
present, also a single Painted Lady,
several Small White, four Speckled Wood, a Comma and a Small
Tortoiseshell.
No visible hirundine passage noted today.
Also a couple of Common
Frog seen.
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