Nightingale morning

I took a short walk around our hill this morning.  We have just had one and a half days of rain and everywhere is looking so fresh.  Nightingales are singing everywhere and I count over 20 singing birds in a quite small area.  Western Orphean Warblers and Subalpine Warblers were also in song and a male Montagu's Harrier sailed over carrying prey.

Butterflies were very much in evidence with lots of Scarce Swallowtails and a few Clouded Yellows.  One or two Walls sunning themselves on rocks and when I returned home another superb Giant Peacock Moth sitting on the wall of the house.

My daughter Bronwen has joined us and we tooka pizza lunch on the terrace at Minerve.  A Blue Rock Thrush was there as usual as well as Crag Martins and Red-rumped Swallows.

This afternoon a Honey Buzzard and another sighting of a male Montagu's Harrier.