I arrived back from Taiwan last Sunday and spent a couple of days readjusting my time clock, I was in Germany on Tuesday, but needed to carry out another Breeding Bird Survey so on Thursday morning (23rd) I went early to Stanley and Lynchmere Commons. I wasn't necessarily expecting much change since the last visit but that was the very start of the month so it would be interesting to see what was different.
The first success was at least one more Redstart, although I had a 3rd bird singing this was slightly outside the recording area, so I registered 2 territories. There were plenty of young birds around and the songsters were still in full voice, with Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler in good numbers, although only 1 Whitethroat and at least 2 Cuckoos. There were 2 Tree Pipit territories and new for the year a Spotted Flycatcher. Also pleasingly, I found another Woodlark so with 2 territories I think that is probably the maximum the site could hold. So it was a good visit, I now need to plan an evening visit to look for Nightjars.
The other success of the day was a Turtle Dove at home, that I flushed from the back of the Veggie patch, and I saw it again today, so hopefully it will hang around.
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