started to rain at 0800h, and continued...
Female Sparrowhawk sat on garden bird feeder at breakfast time before flying off.
....well, it did stop, just about at 1430h for a while. Immediately bird song started and the feed station became very busy, although it had been in use all day. A short watch at the feed station produced 25 House Sparrows, 5 Tree Sparrows, 7 Yellowhammers, plus Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Blue and Great Tits, a couple of Long-tailed Tits and Nuthatch to name a few.
A couple of Mistle Thrush were about, I expect they have a nest nearby. A few Redwing and Fieldfare flew over.
Strangely to me, a flock of ~200 Black-headed Gulls, with a few other larger Gulls, were flying slowly in a rather loose flock quite high. They looked like a flock of Lapwing searching a field to land on, very slowly they headed south, and seemingly 'unsure', then a sudden change in direction back over me and off SW. Can't say I've seen such a flock flying like this around here. Late afternoon they are usually purposely in formation headed back to Draycote for their nightly roost. I had wondered if there was a large unusual predator around, but nothing visible.
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