First visit for a while, primarily with dragonflies in mind, not the best of weather but the flushes are full of water, previous years they'd have been dry as a crisp. A few Southern damsels and a few Azures was all that was to be seen.
Absolutely still, you could hear a pin drop. The chirps and twitters of young swallows sweeping over the moor, lots of moths on the menu. Lesser redpolls seemed everywhere, their constant buzz filled the still air. Bracken is over head height now, which has its advantages when you bump into a couple of families of
Whinchat. (3-4 youngsters and a lone juvenile). Whitethroat feeding young. 2 young Redstart. GS woodpecker, haven't seen many of these recently. Biggest surprise was a family of
Greenfinch, first I've seen here.
