Sunday was a morning of high winds, heavy rain showers and a very cold feel , sort of October in May if you get my feeling. With that in mind I was not expecting to see much and I right I did"nt see much at all.
In the hedges were 5 Blackcap which sang despite the wind etc , meagre support were in the form of 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Whitethroat , and a Lesser Whitethroat .
Overhead 5 Swallow fed over the fields and the first 3 House Matins were around their nest sites at Town Street farm.
Around the fields itself were 5 Skylark ,1 Red Legged Partridge and a healthy 9 Stock Dove . In the field that has the Wheatears in there were 2Pied Wagtails feeding.
Bird of the day came in the form of a female Sparrow Hawk that zipped out a hedgerow and into a large oak tree.
As the title suggests the big news of the day was the sad event of one of the older nest boxes being dislodged by the wind and falling onto the lawn .Inside were 3 very recently hatched chicks and 4 eggs ,I managed to put the chicks and eggs back into the box and reattach the box to the tree although the box now has a large gap at the back and it is impossible to fix with the chicks in there , the adults were still trying to feed the young last night, but I have checked this afternoon and it looks as if they have given up ,very sad .
