Yes -they will be included in my spread sheet for the year

Hi Tim - do you mean Thursday 9th and Friday 10th (latter for the harrier sp.)

Cracking week Tom, should give us all more urge to stare out that kitchen window! Thanks for sharing it with us. Henerz

Perhaps the best week's garden viewing in 21 years started with a huge passage of Swifts 5/8, perhaps 500+ all going south. On Wed, 8th, a full adult Med Gull circled around in the evening for about 1/4 hour, following harvesting in the adjoining field, and on Thurs 8th 4 Buzzards soared for over half an hour before being joined by 2 Kestrels and 1 Sparrowhawk. That evening Little and Tawny Owls and Grey Partridge were calling and the next day (9th) an unidentified Harrier, almost certainly a Marsh glided high, heading south at midday. A Yellowhammer visited the the feeder in the garden the same day and was followed by a Willow Tit that evening (5 species of tit that day). The Willow Tit re-appeared the following evening. Willow Tit has not been previously recorded in the garden. Finally on Sun 12th , a Ring-necked Parakeet flew noisily over.