It was a nice change to be able to walk the patch in the sunshine.Not much difference in the number of summer migrants though the Cuckoo was calling well and I did find another Whitethroat on a territory. Still no Turtle Dove or Garden Warbler in any of the areas that I would have expected to find them by now.
Down at the lake there were 3 Mandarin Drakes and a second Mallard with 2 ducklings.
Sadly it looks as though a Mandarin's nest in one of the boxes may have been robbed as there was eggshells and down below it.A female Reed Bunting was in the reedbed in the S/E corner as was a Robin busy feeding it's young somewhere in the cover.
On the way home I decided to check the field at the rear of the cottages in Furnace Lane(formerly Kirkins Orchard) and was delighted to find 2 male Wheatears
(92) feeding on the turned over turf, unfortunately they remained distant but I did get a shot of one of them.
In the evening I went out to survey for Nightingales but was unsuccessful but did add a Tawny Owl
(93) to the year total.
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