A pleasant walk out to Lollingdon today and plenty of Swift on the move with several hundred passing over the hill during a 2 hour period and the occasional family groups of Swallow.
A young Peregrine Falcon also overhead and flew south east.
2 Common Redstart still present and 2 Blackcap, 3 Common Whitethroat, 3 House Sparrow and several Chiffchaff in the same hedgerow.
Redstart: “the word start is a morph of the middle English stert or the old English steort meaning tail.”
3 Lesser Blackback Gull over the pig fields.
A Little Egret reported from last week between the village and Lollingdon.
Butterflies: Large White, Small White, Common Blue, Holly Blue, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Comma, Speckled Wood, Marbled White, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown and Ringlet.
Common Whitethroat
Common Redstart ↕
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