Sunday September 20

This morning I had arranged to take Sue on a tour of the patch.

We began promptly in thick fog! Sadly the overnight news on the House Martins was not good. It seems as though one had attempted to fledge this morning but something had gone catastrophically wrong. It's wing on the ground beneath the nest was the only evidence of its brief stay on the planet. The other fledgling remains in the nest for now.

We strolled around the fields as the fog quickly lifted. Typical of a pre-arranged tour, the birds were rather shy, and the best I could point out was a single fly-over Lesser Redpoll, a dozen or so migrating Siskins and Meadow Pipits, and the occasional Swallow.

The Flash Field contained 43 Teal, 20 Snipe, and six Green Sandpipers.

Reed Bunting

Anyway it was nice to get to know Sue a little better, and she certainly enjoyed the opportunity to get an idea of the geography of the patch.