Another chilly morning with a light northerly and permanent cloud cover meant a fairly uninspiring trawl around some local sites.
Middletown finally yielded a distant passage Wheatear, but not much else. Mappleborough Green Flash added just the usual species, so it was left to Morton Bagot to try and raise my spirits.
There was no sign of the Garganey, and I counted 11 Eurasian Teal but nothing American with them. The pair of Shelducks remain in residence. There were no passage waders, and just three Swallows were hunting over the nearest flash. At last I got to the field which had held the Ring Ouzels and found a nice male Wheatear to save the day.
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| Northern Wheatear |
There were virtually no insects flying, but hopefully warmer days are ahead and things should pick up.
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