Afterwards we took a family walk to Wimpole , where I knew that Lesser-spotted Woodpeckers bred. Unsurprisingly, with no information as to where to go (the site is secret) and the vast size of the estate, we failed to find any with a Green Woodpecker being the only woodpecker seen.
The wind had died when I walked around Fowlmere for the last hour or so before dark. The wintering Barn Owl was seen, and the year's first Tawny Owl heard. A (the?) Snipe also dropped in at dusk, and it or another could be heard in flight as I left.
