August has never been a particularly stand-out month for our surveys at the 'little church on the hill'. Today, however, we were kept busy with an unexpected raptor passage.
As soon as we began recording it was obviously a 'flying ant day`- large gulls in their dozens were circling overhead, occasionally joined by a few corvids. As we were sorting these out, Peter picked up a distant pair of Common Buzzards, followed by 'kettles' of ten, seven, twenty and twelve, amongst which were two Honey Buzzards and a large accipiter. A little later a somewhat tatty Red Kite flew low overhead, while a Great Spotted Woodpecker was a good, late addition to the day-list.
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