June 2nd

The unseasonable weather continued as we walked from Shuart to Plumpudding this morning and saw 2 Ring-necked Parakeet, 3 Blackcaps, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 9 Cetti's Warblers, 1 Common Buzzard, 10 Goldfinches, 2 Lapwings, 1 Red-legged Partridge, 3 Pied Wagtails, 1 Little Egret, 7 Linnets, 2 Oystercatchers, 5 Mallard, 4 Ringed Plovers, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Tern, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Whitethroat and 1 Merlin zipping across a ploughed field at Shuart Lane.

Lapwing