The long hot summer has now become a very mild autumn and a consequence of this appears to be the late migration of some of our summer visitors. I have see several warblers (chiffchaff or willow warbler) over the last week, but most unusually, I saw a hobby over the fields.
I imagine that the hobbies had a very successful breeding season as there were so many dragon flies around this year, but I would not expect to see one in mid October.
The linnets have just returned to the stubble fields they occupied throughout last winter. At the moment the flock amounts to about thirty individuals, but I would expect that number to rise over the coming weeks. There are still some skylarks on the fields, though no song.
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