The welcome summer weather with a fresh E/SE'ly breeze made for a very pleasant hike despite there being a lack of birds in some places. To counter this, there were a couple of occasions when groups of adult and recently fledged birds had me craning my neck at untoward angles.
No.1 was when a party of mainly Coal Tit along with a couple of LTT and a Warbler or three were whizzing around giving reasonable views.
No.2 was when in a confined coniferous area I had to really pull out the stops to catch glimpses of mainly WW flitting speedily through the tree tops.
Nothing out of the ordinary was seen, the exception being one area where there was a party of 4 Grey Heron at a hill bottom while at the top 4 Raven were having a helluva party.
I did notice a small influx of LBBG at two dry locations, totalling about 14 birds maximum and with the wind pattern I hoped for Michahellis but there were no gulls at all on any stretches of water.
Others, in subdued numbers: Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Dunnock, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Greenfinch. 1 each GS & Green Woodpecker.
Flutterbyes: 8 Painted Ladies, 2 Tortoiseshell, 1 Red Admiral, 4/5 Small Copper and 1 of them 5/6 spot lace wing thingies I've forgotten the name of.
