Also notice that I haven't added Rook or Jackdaw
Still haven't, but after a month and more of stagnation, largely due to me being out of the country and later due to a conspiracy by the rain, finally things are moving again, three newbies this weekend.
Summer effectively over, one lone
White Stork the last lingerer, plus a few other ragtag tail-enders - one
Lesser Spotted Eagle, the
Cranes still in my meadow, one
Red-backed Shrike on the shrike pile, plus a steady movement of migrants,
Swallows south, quite a few
Whitethroats and
Whinchats, a couple of
Blackcaps, etc.
Sign of autumn though, the first
Nutcrackers moving, plus an incoming
Great Grey Shrike on a post at the meadow fringe. Also, two mighty
White-tailed Eagles, a fine adult soaring overhead, then a half hour later, a juvenile cruising low, landing in my wood.
But for the new birds, the glories go to
Kestrel (5th record on my land, the last five years ago and all August/September),
Yellow Wagtail (a flock of about eight, usually see this species in spring, a pair sometimes breeding) and
Goldcrest (a common autumn bird)
106. Kestrel.
107. Yellow Wagtail.
108. Goldcrest.
