Friday, August 31, 2012
The last day of summer
Greger suggested doing our Saturday walk today as the weather looked good and we have no work anyway. We parked at Warren Farm near Streatley and walked up the Ridgeway. A wheatear was far out on the warren.
In the scrub on the eastern flank of Lowbury Hill there was a spotted flycatcher. Despite the photo, this was the best view I've had of a spotfly this year.
There was also a colourful pigeon, sitting very still in an elder tree. It had a green ring on its right leg. Perhaps this is one of the racing pigeons that have been disappearing into England's answer to the Bermuda triangle (various news outlets recently).
Back at Streatley Warren we encountered our third migrant of the day in this redstart.
Otherwise there were loads of swallows and house martins still around and a fair number of buzzards and kites; and a Silver Y moth was seen at the edge of a field.
// posted by Christine @ 1:18 PM 
