Thursday 20th August 2009

Today yet another wonderful example of our barbecue summer was found this morning in our back garden that was almost completely covered by water after a night of absolutely torrential rain

However the amount of water lying around seem to attract the birds and tempted me to put up the net for an hour between downpours to see what was around. I had already seen a female Grey Wagtail on the fence and also heard a number of Linnets calling from the field. A total of 14 birds were caught in a short space of time but this included a juvenile Whitethroat, a Willow Warbler and the first Robin of the year but will imagine a good few more will pass through. Oystercatchers (11) were also seen in the back field