Life revolves around 'the walk', 'the queue', 'the shop' but luckily birding and general wildlife watching in conjunction with webcams, local and national reporting and recording schemes, Chris Packham's daily morning show and so on keeps interest up even in this relatively spartan area for wildlife. Having an all engrossing hobby is a godsend especially at the moment.
A mixed bag of entertainment coming up this month with old 'live' Pink Floyd concerts, Richard Thompson doing a live RAH home concert and a ladybird ID webinar.
Locally, the female Peregrine seems to have lost interest in perching/roosting on the church but Black 67 is present everyday. Yesterday he was hunkered down out of the wind and appeared to be feeding. Elsewhere, in Chichester, the female still has 10 days or so of incubation before hatching - guesstimate of 12th. One of the Coot broods is down from five to three and the other from five to two, however the single Moorhen is well on its way to fledging.
The highlight of the morning was this just emerged Angle Shades moth in the garden and on the 'short version' walk these; female Platycheirus albamanus, Hawthorn Shieldbug ( Acanthosoma haemorroidale), a Xysticus crab spider and the less-than-welcome Alder Leaf Beetle.
