....a sketching trip on Sunday morning, up to the hill fort at Chaudanne, hoping for wryneck and bonelli's - wrong place for the first, too early still for the other. Good numbers of chiffchaffs singing, also a few blackcaps and the first willow warblers. A pair of redstarts were present, though the male was only glimpsed briefly, leaving me to sketch the female, never mind, a good lesson in id seeing as there were a few black redstarts about too. Also in the sketches, a blackbird that held this position for a minute! A heron, because that might sell well in a gallery (yes, even artists are sometimes shallow!), and a short-toed treecreeper because I saw the short toe!!! Positively identifying it as such, rather than being suspected as most likely candidate in this area.