But hark! what heavenly sound is this that now
steals like a dream.....
It is the heart-song of the nightingale.....
(Anna Katherine Green)
Not so much Nightingale song now but the Fattengates bird still singing and elsewhere Williw Warbler, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat and Garden Warbler still singing .
At Westmead a croaking call revealed a drake Garganey now well on its way to eclipse plumage. Can't remember last time I heard one outside of WWT's collection birds!!
After lunch a brief view of a very brown Cuckoo, presumably a rufous phase female, (unless any juveniles could be this big and fledged yet) disappeared into trees near the hanger viewpoint. No sight nor sound of any waders other than Lapwing but two distant Hobbies eventually came in and put on a nice show for a number of visitors; three very distant Buzzards were the only other raptors. Insect-wise just two Painted Lady and hoverfly Volucella pellucens.
On the way back a similar number of hawking Med Gulls still over the A3, this time with a Buzzard in attendance.
