One of those lovely calm evenings when you can hear, even with my old ears, a pin drop. Most obvious was the constant seep, seep, seep of meadow pipits with an occasional Tree pipit as well. 13 Snipe were scattered along the walk, even a couple on the Deer Park. Golden plovers calling overhead, as were some godwits, sounded like Barwits. A couple of circuits of the Deer Park failed to turn up a wryneck. The ticks and peeps of Robins, wrens and stonechats was all I could find. A Sedge warbler briefly gave me hope of something better. Flock of 13 chough by Renny Slip. A Hooded crow was in Trehills fields, with lots of corvids picking at the emerging cranefly most likely. A sudden eruption of Jackdaws had me looking for a raptor, as they pursued a pale bird which turned out to be a Cattle egret, it dropped down among the Welsh blacks to the west of the mere. First four wigeon and a Tufted duck had joined the 30 or so Teal. A coup!e of chiffchaff in the withies. It wasn't only the pipits that were moving, there was a noticeable trickle of red admiral, painted ladies, peacocks and fewer large whites all drifting eastwards. Might be worth another look tomorrow.
