Fowlmere

Sunshine and heavy showers:

Marsh Harrier - female (plus one unidentified sighting.)
Lesser Whitethroat - three.
Yellow Wagtail - one over, plus another two unidentified Wagtails with it.
Common Whitethroat

Amwell

A visit to a sunny Amwell with the whole family:

Ruddy Duck - male.
Swift x c.20
Redshank - pair.
Cetti's Warbler x2 (heard only.)
Ringed Plover x 4
Common Tern x 6
Hobby
Common Sandpiper
Shelduck

Fowlmere

Several Reed Warblers were heard and seen at Fowlmere having presumably arrived over the last few days.

Fowlmere and Shepreth L-moor

The morning drizzle looked promising for migrants, but produced little apart from a small fall of Sedge Warblers. When the drizzle turned to heavy rain I gave up. Brightened up in the evening, so took a walk around Fowlmere with Tom, but with no more luck.

House Martin

No new species migrants at Fowlmere, but plenty more Sedge Warblers in. The first House Martin flew over the garden, and we caught the large (25 gramme) Bank Vole again.

Red Kite, Redstart, and Marsh Harrier

I didn't see the bird of the day: Red Kite over fields behind Foxton school, seen by Tom. We both saw the male Redstart, still at Shepreth L-moor, and on the way home Fowlmere's male Marsh Harrier hunting between Foxton and Fowlmere.

A male Orange Tip was seen in the garden.

Green-winged Teal

Passed near by Eyebrook Reservoir on the way home from Rutland Water (rock climbing and cycling) so called in for a quick look at the male Green-winged Teal.

A different Bank Vole caught: 19 grammes.