April 29th

Monday's Ring Ouzel must have broken my 2010 Ouzel jinx, for this morning, while scanning from the garden, I picked up two 'rangy' looking Thrushes flying towards me and immediately knew they were Ouzels. They turned and landed in a treetop close to the paddocks and were still in that area when I walked Ossie through there an hour later, one in particular showing exceptionally pale edgings to it's wing feathers giving it a very distinctive appearance.

Earlier, I'd driven into the village from the west side seeing two separate male Wheatears along the way whilst at Walcott Green, an adult female Marsh Harrier was hunting a field edge.