A wonderful collection, as usual! The Marsh Warbler particularly drew me in. Sounds like a great holiday for the life list as well.
Bacl to France for a little while, though there are still plenty of paintings from holidays that I want to do. Here we have my lifer Corncrake bombing past me , I spent a wonderful afternoon listening to them (and glimpsing this one) at a secret site in my region - sadly, we don't have many left at all - just two sites this year in a region 4/5 the size of Wales. Black Kite being inspected by a crow and then some paintings from my weekend in the uplands of Franche Comté with Mr Jonathan Williams where we had a lifer each - I finally saw Quail, he ticked Lesser Spotted Eagle (with at least 13 Hobby) and we both enjoyed some very showy Marsh Warblers.